HackingRetailData ExfiltratedEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 28, 2020

Filed

Aug 25, 2020

To disclose

28 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION →3 incidents on file

Brown-Forman Corporation disclosed a cyber attack where criminals stole records containing personal information of current and former employees, including SSNs, home addresses, and salary data. Suspicious activity was discovered on July 28, 2020. The company engaged forensic experts, contained the breach, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Jul 28, 2020 → Notified Aug 25, 202028d ✓ CA 60-day OK28 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 105 days

discovery → filing · 28 days

Apr 14, 2020

Begins

Jul 28, 2020

Discovered

Aug 25, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_b1b02026a2f3a5742020-08-25Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_e8f88c417a997f4a2021-04-01 · +219dVerified
Maine State AGbd_2dc4eddf8b717fea2021-05-10 · +258dVerified

Name: BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION
norm: brown forman
Domain: brown-forman.com

Name: BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION
norm: brown forman
Domain: brown-forman.com

Discovered: Jul 28, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 14, 2020
Undetected for: 105 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 25, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Investigated the incident as soon as we became aware of suspicious activity on our network
Took several steps to limit access to our network to prevent further data from being compromised or stolen
Engaged outside forensic experts to help us better understand the impact of this incident
Cooperating with law enforcement
Changes made: Arranged the option for you to enroll in a complimentary one-year credit monitoring service
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 28d
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: Jul 28, 2020
→ Notified: Aug 25, 2020
28d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jul 28, 2020 → Notified: Aug 25, 2020	28d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

New Hampshire State AGAug 25 · first

California State AGAug 25 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+219d

Maine State AG+258d

Pattern: first filing Aug 25 (NH), last May 10 (ME) — a 258-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/sb24-193435
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 25, 2020
Raw hash: 2bd57d6c3cfdb8b91e1daba59259e1639bb48d9d25e354f24b87f53b1a17d6df

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION

Victim entityBROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION

Incidentdiscovered Jul 28, 2020

Stated responseInvestigated the incident as soon as we became aware of suspicious activity on our network

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov