AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

Ascensus Group Holdings, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 31, 2018

Filed

Feb 20, 2018

To disclose

20 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Ascensus Group Holdings, Inc. →6 incidents on file

Ascensus, LLC, recordkeeper for the Red Hawk Casino 401(k) Plan, inadvertently sent a payroll report containing personal information to another Ascensus client on January 31, 2018. The report included names, addresses, birth dates, hire dates, and Social Security numbers. The recipient deleted the data immediately. Ascensus offered 12 months of identity protection via Experian.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 31, 2018 → Notified Feb 21, 201821d ✓ CA 60-day OK20 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 days

Jan 31, 2018

Begins

Jan 31, 2018

Discovered

Feb 20, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Ascensus Group Holdings, Inc.
norm: ascensus group

Name: Ascensus Group Holdings, Inc.
norm: ascensus group
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 31, 2018
Breach occurred: Jan 31, 2018
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 21, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown

During the incident: Informed the recipient that she had received confidential data in error
Offering a complimentary 12-month identity protection package through Experian, called IdentityWorks
Changes made: Evaluating any additional steps that we can take to ensure that this does not happen again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 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: Jan 31, 2018
→ Notified: Feb 21, 2018
21d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 31, 2018 → Notified: Feb 21, 2018	21d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/sb24-133904
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 20, 2018
Raw hash: eeb656fc9d5d04e695cbff75711fce973258c1caa622229a07fc2086b28036b6

Reporting entityAscensus Group Holdings, Inc.

Victim entityAscensus Group Holdings, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 31, 2018

Stated responseInformed the recipient that she had received confidential data in error

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov