AccidentalMisdeliveryDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
Department of Motor Vehicles
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Full breach record for Department of Motor Vehicles →California DMV disclosed a data breach on September 28, 2015, where an employee mistakenly sent a file containing customer names and driver license numbers to the Riverside Probation Department instead of the intended Santa Clara Transportation Agency. The incident was discovered on October 9, 2015, when the recipient reported the error. No Social Security Numbers were released. The employee was retrained, and the DMV implemented additional awareness training and policy reviews.
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/sb24-58698
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 6, 2015
- Raw hash
- a8027000495d2de0b67a3b3f838b03c6c9bd241b4ae82cfc45679ae4075eb75f
Reporting entity
- Name
- California Department of Motor Vehicle (CA DMV)norm: california department of motor vehicle ca dmv
Victim entity
- Name
- Department of Motor Vehiclesnorm: department of motor vehicles
- Domain
- dmvusa.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 9, 2015
- Materiality determined
- Sep 28, 2015
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Insider
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1535 Unattended Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.