California law requires a business or state or local agency to notify any California resident whose unencrypted personal information, as defined, was acquired, or reasonably believed to have been acquired, by an unauthorized person. (You can read the law here: California Civil Code s. 1798.29(a) for state agencies and California Civ. Code s. 1798.82(a) for businesses).
The law also requires that a sample copy of a breach notice sent to more than 500 California residents must be provided to the California Attorney General. Below is a list of those sample breach notices. (Note that in some cases the organization that sent the notice is not the one that experienced the breach. For example, a bank may notify of a credit card number breach that occurred not at the bank, but at a merchant.)
You can search by the name of the organization that sent the notice, or simply scroll through the list. To read a notice, click on the name of the organization in the list. Then click on the link titled "Sample Notification."
| Organization Name | Date(s) of Breach | Reported Date |
|---|---|---|
| Mediant Communications Inc. | 04/01/2019 | 05/28/2019 |
| Dawn Food Products, Inc. | n/a | 05/24/2019 |
| National Wildlife Federation | 01/03/2019 | 05/24/2019 |
| Redtail Technology, Inc. | n/a | 05/23/2019 |
| The Georgia Institute of Technology | 12/14/2018, 03/22/2019 | 05/22/2019 |
| Moda Operandi Inc. | n/a | 05/22/2019 |
| Hematology Oncology Associates, PC | 12/18/2018, 02/22/2019 | 05/21/2019 |
| T3 Micro Inc. | 07/13/2018, 03/17/2019 | 05/20/2019 |
| Art.sy, Inc. d/b/a Artsy | 04/30/2018 | 05/17/2019 |
| AltaMed Health Services Corporation | 01/09/2019 | 05/15/2019 |
| Health Net of California and Health Net Life Insurance Company | 03/01/2019 | 05/13/2019 |
| Oklahoma Department of Securities | 11/29/2018 | 05/10/2019 |
| Sprint Corporation ("Boost Mobile") | 03/14/2019 | 05/09/2019 |
| St. Vincent Medical Center | 03/15/2019 | 05/08/2019 |
| Collie Accountancy | 04/18/2019, 04/19/2019, 04/20/2019 | 05/07/2019 |
| New Bit Ventures Ltd. | 12/09/2018 | 05/07/2019 |
| American Indian Health & Services, Inc. | 02/26/2019, 03/06/2019 | 05/06/2019 |
| EmCare, Inc., Sheridan Healthcorp, Inc. and their affiliates | 09/24/2018 | 05/04/2019 |
| San Francisco Unified School District | 04/10/2019 | 05/01/2019 |
| Immediata Health Group Corp. | 01/22/2019 | 04/30/2019 |
| Citrix Systems, Inc. | 10/13/2018 | 04/29/2019 |
| Loungefly, LLC | 09/19/2018 | 04/26/2019 |
| Lancaster Archery Supply, Inc. | 07/04/2018, 02/16/2019 | 04/26/2019 |
| Abel HR | 11/11/2018, 11/26/2018 | 04/26/2019 |
| Hot Line Construction, Inc. | 10/25/2018, 11/30/2018 | 04/24/2019 |
| Vitalize, LLC | 07/05/2018 | 04/19/2019 |
| Mikhail Education Corporation | 03/20/2019, 03/26/2019 | 04/19/2019 |
| International Agri-Center | 11/24/2018 | 04/19/2019 |
| Gary W. Peer, M.D. | 03/13/2019 | 04/18/2019 |
| Dr. T.Y. Steven Ip M.D. F.A.C.S. | 02/06/2019 | 04/18/2019 |
| flexPATH Strategies, LLC | 12/07/2018 | 04/17/2019 |
| Centrelake Medical Group, Inc. | 01/09/2019, 02/19/2019 | 04/16/2019 |
| L.D. Evans, CPA | 11/23/2018 | 04/16/2019 |
| The Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company | 02/07/2019 | 04/12/2019 |
| California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (submitted c/o Pearson VUE) | 10/01/2016 | 04/12/2019 |
| Jobscience, Inc. | 05/11/2018 | 04/10/2019 |
| Canyon Bakehouse LLC | 03/29/2017, 02/12/2019 | 04/09/2019 |
| Urban One, Inc. | 02/28/2019 | 04/05/2019 |
| Pie Five Pizza | 09/07/2018, 10/25/2018 | 04/05/2019 |
| Bank of the West | 12/03/2018, 12/22/2018 | 04/05/2019 |
| Citrus Valley Health Partners | 05/08/2018, 05/09/2018, 05/10/2018, 05/11/2018 | 04/05/2019 |
| AeroGrow International | 10/29/2018, 03/04/2019 | 04/04/2019 |
| ZOLL Services LLC | 11/08/2018, 12/28/2018 | 04/04/2019 |
| RSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc. | 08/23/2018 | 04/03/2019 |
| Altura Credit Union | 03/05/2019, 03/06/2019, 03/07/2019, 03/08/2019 | 04/03/2019 |
| Key West Hotels, LLC | 02/07/2018, 12/13/2018 | 04/02/2019 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc. dba RS Medical | 02/11/2019, 02/12/2019 | 04/02/2019 |
| Earl Enterprises | 05/23/2018, 03/18/2019 | 03/29/2019 |
| Wolverine Solutions Group | 09/23/2018 | 03/25/2019 |
| Verity Medical Foundation | 01/16/2019 | 03/22/2019 |