PhysicalHealthcareTechnologyHealthcareTheftEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountHealth (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

Abbott Medical Optics Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 29, 2009

Filed

Feb 1, 2010

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

0state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Abbott Medical Optics Inc. →

Abbott Medical Optics Inc. reported the theft of three locked metal boxes containing computer backup tapes from its Milpitas, California facility on December 29, 2009. The tapes contained sensitive personal information of employees and consumers, including names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, driver's license numbers, financial account numbers, visa application information, and limited medical information. Approximately 11 New Hampshire residents were affected (6 employees and fewer than 5 consumers). The company notified law enforcement immediately, offered one year of credit monitoring through Equifax, and implemented additional media handling controls.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 34 days

Dec 29, 2009

Begins

Dec 29, 2009

Discovered

Feb 1, 2010

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed11 affectedView incident

Name: Abbott Medical Optics Inc.
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Name: Abbott Medical Optics Inc.
norm: abbott medical optics
Industry: HealthcarellmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Dec 29, 2009
Breach occurred: Dec 29, 2009
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 29, 2010
Affected individuals: 0
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountHealth (basic)Employment
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire

During the incident: Reported this breach to law enforcement personnel immediately upon discovery
Offering them a credit monitoring service
Worked diligently with in-house and outside resources to evaluate our media handling policies
Worked diligently with in-house and outside resources to understand what data was on the tapes and how it was stored
Changes made: Added additional controls around media handling to help prevent this type of incident from occurring again
Reviewed our security procedures and implemented additional measures to avoid a recurrence of this type
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(34 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/abbott-medical-20100201.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 1, 2010
Raw hash: 51809273ed7a1b456e131fde332cb31165c77fcaf7fddec1fcb45d52de15f42a

Reporting entityAbbott Medical Optics Inc.

Victim entityAbbott Medical Optics Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 29, 2009

Stated responseReported this breach to law enforcement personnel immediately upon discovery

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov