Social EngineeringPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
PIVOTAL SOFTWARE, INC.
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Full breach record for PIVOTAL SOFTWARE, INC. →Pivotal Software, Inc. experienced a phishing incident on March 22, 2016, where an unknown third party sent a fraudulent email impersonating CEO Rob Mee to an employee. The employee responded, providing personal information including 2015 Form W-2s, which contained names, addresses, income information, and Social Security Numbers. Pivotal investigated, notified law enforcement and the IRS, and offered 3 years of identity protection via AllClear ID.
California clockDiscovered Mar 22, 2016 → Notified Mar 31, 20169d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 days discovery → filing
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_0fbf9611d039da3dNew Hampshire State AGfiled 2016-03-30Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-60798
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 30, 2016
- Raw hash
- 63b23adce581f36a7d43754924ce9aa7cc971c5476fa65307ba9e0b766752719
Reporting entity
- Name
- PIVOTAL SOFTWARE, INC.norm: pivotal software
Victim entity
- Name
- PIVOTAL SOFTWARE, INC.norm: pivotal software
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 22, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 31, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified law enforcementContacted the IRS
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 days(8 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 9d
- 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 22, 2016→ Notified: Mar 31, 20169d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.