PhysicalTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
Humboldt County, CA - Official Website
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Full breach record for Humboldt County, CA - Official Website →County of Humboldt notified employees and dependents that payroll documents containing names and Social Security numbers were recovered by the Sheriff's Office on September 7, 2017, during a search warrant execution in Trinity County. The incident involved the physical loss/theft of records. The County engaged forensic experts, conducted a record audit, and offered one year of credit monitoring. Remediation includes strengthening records management policies.
California clockDiscovered Sep 7, 2017 → Notified Nov 29, 201783d ✗ CA 60-day late12 weeks 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/sb24-119438
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 1, 2017
- Raw hash
- 5fcc577f0af68e1a84436c513cf72e3b6faab6721b08aad500a9b61a0acb653d
Reporting entity
- Name
- Humboldt County, CA - Official Websitenorm: humboldt county ca official website
- Domain
- humboldtgov.org
Victim entity
- Name
- Humboldt County, CA - Official Websitenorm: humboldt county ca official website
- Domain
- humboldtgov.org
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 7, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Nov 29, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Regulator citations
- Notified the California Attorney General’s Office
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 12 weeks(85 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 83d
- 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: Sep 7, 2017→ Notified: Nov 29, 201783d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.