MalwareRansomwareData ExfiltratedRansom DemandedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTCREDENTIALSMediumContained
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
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Full breach record for COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION →Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation reported a ransomware attack occurring April 9-11, 2020, discovered April 20, 2020. Attackers exfiltrated data including SSNs, financial account info, and driver's licenses. Cognizant cooperated with the FBI and offered 12 months of credit monitoring. Approximately 34 Rhode Island residents were notified.
California clockDiscovered Apr 20, 2020 → Notified Jun 17, 202058d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-190989
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 17, 2020
- Raw hash
- 7051d8e2704ed45eb2164f8c2c8a83e7e0aa6182c709b8bd8d5debffaa2b7f98
Reporting entity
- Name
- COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONnorm: cognizant technology
- Domain
- cognizant.com
Victim entity
- Name
- COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONnorm: cognizant technology
- Domain
- cognizant.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 20, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jun 17, 2020
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTCREDENTIALS
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 58d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Apr 20, 2020→ Notified: Jun 17, 202058d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.