HackingManufacturingTechnologyManufacturingStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumContained

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 28, 2020

Filed

Mar 20, 2020

To disclose

21 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY →4 incidents on file

GE notified California residents that its service provider, Canon Business Process Services, experienced a data security incident between Feb 3-14, 2020. An unauthorized party accessed an email account containing documents with personal information of GE employees, former employees, and beneficiaries. Data included names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, bank account numbers, and passport numbers. GE was notified on Feb 28, 2020. Canon retained a forensic expert. GE is offering two years of credit monitoring via Experian.

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California clockDiscovered Feb 28, 2020 → Notified Mar 20, 202021d ✓ CA 60-day OK21 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 25 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Feb 3, 2020

Begins

Feb 28, 2020

Discovered

Mar 20, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_c1f6650624ba81032020-03-20Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_fb815d7a897553a92020-03-20Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_49c04691a14c18012020-03-13 · +7dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_88b9e6322be0a8642020-03-13 · +7dVerified

Name: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
norm: general electric
Domain: ge.com

Name: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
norm: general electric
Domain: ge.com
Industry: ManufacturingllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Feb 28, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 3, 2020 – Feb 14, 2020
Undetected for: 25 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 20, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Canon Business Process Services, Inc.
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Working with Canon to identify the affected GE employees, former employees and beneficiaries
Canon retained a data security expert to conduct a forensic investigation
Offering identity protection and credit monitoring services to affected individuals for two years at no cost through Experian
Changes made: Taking steps to help ensure appropriate measures are implemented to prevent a reoccurrence of this kind of incident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 21d
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: Feb 28, 2020
→ Notified: Mar 20, 2020
21d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Feb 28, 2020 → Notified: Mar 20, 2020	21d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Massachusetts State AGMar 13 · first

Indiana State AGMar 13 · first

Montana State AG+7d

Massachusetts State AG+7d

California State AG+7d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 13 (MA), last Mar 20 (CA) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/sb24-188474
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 20, 2020
Raw hash: 0d3dd092dfc5a7074ecc0d344b0bab36c99ec3f21a1c78289e479d13b99ad428

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Victim entityGENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Incidentdiscovered Feb 28, 2020

Stated responseWorking with Canon to identify the affected GE employees, former employees and beneficiaries

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov