AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisconfigurationEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

California Department of Food and Agriculture

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 22, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for California Department of Food and Agriculture →2 incidents on file

California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) reported a data breach on its Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services extranet site occurring on or around March 4, 2024. The incident exposed Personally Identifiable Information (PII) including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and site usernames and passwords. The agency identified and corrected the vulnerability. Affected individuals were advised to change their passwords.

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Incident timeline

Mar 4, 2024

Begins

Mar 22, 2024

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: California Department of Food and Agriculture
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Name: California Department of Food and Agriculture
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Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 4, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Taken steps to identify and correct this vulnerability to prevent further breaches and protect users PII
Changes made: Recommend changing your password(s) to prevent unauthorized access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-582925
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 22, 2024
Raw hash: 9bb9637c0496c2c65195dddb03b59bd22d4cdf6b7da1d607b78691786a893e6c

Reporting entityCalifornia Department of Food and Agriculture

Victim entityCalifornia Department of Food and Agriculture

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseTaken steps to identify and correct this vulnerability to prevent further breaches and protect users PII

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov