Social EngineeringPhishingMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
NEO Tech
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Full breach record for NEO Tech →NEO Tech experienced an email phishing incident on January 27, 2017, resulting in the misdelivery of employee W-2 forms containing names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, and income data to an unauthorized recipient. The company notified the IRS and FTB and offered one year of identity protection services via Experian to affected employees.
California clockDiscovered Jan 27, 2017 → Notified Feb 13, 201717d ✓ CA 60-day OK16 days discovery → filing
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/sb24-66307
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 12, 2017
- Raw hash
- 70b197168236539a5f5958e3a40f45d16638ab25ba2ebdb11b678817d0f80d09
Reporting entity
- Name
- NEO Technorm: neo tech
- Domain
- neotech.com
Victim entity
- Name
- NEO Technorm: neo tech
- Domain
- neotech.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 27, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 13, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 Phishing
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Contacted the IRS Criminal Investigators and ID Theft UnitContacted the affected State Franchise Tax Board (FTB) theft units
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 17d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Jan 27, 2017→ Notified: Feb 13, 201717d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.