Social EngineeringPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

OCS America Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 4, 2013

Filed

Mar 22, 2013

To disclose

18 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for OCS America Inc. →

OCS America, Inc. discovered a malicious phishing attack on one of its computers on March 4, 2013. The incident potentially exposed employee information including name, address, telephone number, date of birth, job title, salary, and Social Security numbers. The company took the affected computer offline, investigated to ensure no other systems were compromised, and reset passwords. Affected individuals were offered 12 months of credit monitoring through Experian.

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California clockDiscovered Mar 4, 2013 → Notified Mar 12, 20138d ✓ CA 60-day OK18 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 days

Mar 4, 2013

Begins

Mar 4, 2013

Discovered

Mar 22, 2013

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_a44cc01b3ce075232013-03-22Verified

Name: OCS America Inc.
norm: ocs america
Domain: ocsworld.com

Name: OCS America Inc.
norm: ocs america
Domain: ocsworld.com

Discovered: Mar 4, 2013
Breach occurred: Mar 4, 2013
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 12, 2013
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took the computer offline
Investigated the attack to confirm that additional computers or network servers were not affected
Reset applicable passwords
Made arrangements with Experian to provide a 12-month membership to a credit monitoring plan, ProtectMyID Alert
Changes made: Reset applicable passwords to prevent this from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 days(18 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 8d
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: Mar 4, 2013
→ Notified: Mar 12, 2013
8d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Mar 4, 2013 → Notified: Mar 12, 2013	8d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 22 · first

California State AGMar 22 · first · this page

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/sb24-40804
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 22, 2013
Raw hash: 175eb67eb504f0f1b3df6782237764014eede954f6fdc99522a93e89d3db512b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityOCS America Inc.

Victim entityOCS America Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 4, 2013

Stated responseTook the computer offline

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov