State of California Department of Justice
Rob Bonta
Attorney General
Attorney General
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Caliber Home Loans, Inc. | 01/18/2017 | 06/22/2017 |
| Sadd Velazquez Higashi Shammaa, LLP | 05/01/2017, 05/02/2017, 05/03/2017 | 06/20/2017 |
| Home Point Financial Corporation | n/a | 06/20/2017 |
| Torrance Memorial Medical Center | 04/18/2017, 04/19/2017 | 06/19/2017 |
| Occidental College | 06/01/2017 | 06/19/2017 |
| Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. | 05/15/2017 | 06/19/2017 |
| Jewelry.com, a division of Richline Group, Inc. | 11/16/2016, 03/23/2017 | 06/17/2017 |
| Gracenote, a Nielsen Company | 05/18/2017 | 06/15/2017 |
| Washington State University | 04/21/2017 | 06/09/2017 |
| SMH Enterprises LLC | 05/30/2017 | 06/09/2017 |
| Select Restaurants, Inc. | 10/26/2016, 01/05/2017 | 06/09/2017 |
| Northern Humboldt Union High School District | 04/17/2017 | 06/06/2017 |
| GameStop, Inc. | 08/10/2016 | 06/05/2017 |
| Freedom Smokes, Inc. | 03/07/2017 | 06/05/2017 |
| Signature Hardware Inc. | 04/28/2017 | 06/02/2017 |
| BMO Harris Bank N.A. | 05/15/2017 | 05/31/2017 |
| Keith M. Southwood, CPA, Inc. | 03/29/2017 | 05/31/2017 |
| Funding Circle USA, Inc. | 04/27/2017 | 05/30/2017 |
| Da Vinci Schools | 04/04/2017 | 05/30/2017 |
| Wiseburn Unified School District | 04/04/2017 | 05/30/2017 |
| FastHealth Corporation | 01/14/2016, 12/20/2016 | 05/26/2017 |
| Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. | 03/24/2014, 04/18/2017 | 05/26/2017 |
| Allrecipes.com, Inc. | n/a | 05/25/2017 |
| Char-Broil, LLC | 03/22/2017, 04/21/2017 | 05/25/2017 |
| Bank of the West | 02/01/2017, 04/09/2017 | 05/24/2017 |
| Incipio, LLC | 02/26/2016 | 05/23/2017 |
| TALX Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equifax, Inc. | 01/04/2016, 03/29/2017 | 05/23/2017 |
| Michael T. Blevins, Inc. | 03/26/2017 | 05/20/2017 |
| Mt. Diablo Unified School District | 04/27/2017 | 05/19/2017 |
| HSX.com | n/a | 05/18/2017 |
| Rite Aid Online Store, Inc. | 01/30/2017, 04/11/2017 | 05/17/2017 |
| Discover Financial Services | 11/24/2015 | 05/17/2017 |
| Equitable Tax Service | 03/16/2017 | 05/16/2017 |
| Nicopure Labs, LLC | n/a | 05/16/2017 |
| Tatcha, LLC | 01/08/2017 | 05/16/2017 |
| The University of New Mexico Foundation | 02/16/2017 | 05/15/2017 |
| KURU Footwear | 12/20/2016, 03/03/2017 | 05/15/2017 |
| TripAdvisor LLC | n/a | 05/15/2017 |
| Indigo Wild | 04/17/2017 | 05/15/2017 |
| D'Angelo & Associates, APC | 03/25/2017, 03/26/2017, 03/27/2017, 03/28/2017, 03/29/2017, 03/30/2017, 03/31/2017, 04/01/2017, 04/02/2017, 04/03/2017, 04/04/2017, 04/12/2017, 04/13/2017, 04/14/2017, 04/15/2017 | 05/12/2017 |
| Brooks Brothers | 04/04/2016, 03/01/2017 | 05/12/2017 |
| Genpact International, Inc. | 01/12/2017 | 05/08/2017 |
| RM Acquisition, LLC d/b/a Rand McNally | 04/12/2017, 03/02/2017 | 05/05/2017 |
| Agri Beef Co. | 11/22/2016 | 05/04/2017 |
| Zinc Auto Finance, Inc | n/a | 05/03/2017 |
| MSA Accounting CPA, Professional Corp. | n/a | 05/02/2017 |
| Mcdavid, Inc. | 09/05/2017, 11/11/2017 | 05/02/2017 |
| Palo Alto Unified School District | 04/04/2017 | 05/01/2017 |
| Gannett Company, Inc | 03/28/2017 | 04/28/2017 |
| Aptos, Inc. on behalf of Retailers in Attached Addendum | n/a | 04/28/2017 |