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 |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) | 10/24/2017 | 11/13/2017 |
| Gallagher NAC | 06/18/2017, 09/19/2017 | 11/13/2017 |
| Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center | 09/08/2017, 09/09/2017, 09/10/2017, 09/11/2017, 09/12/2017 | 11/13/2017 |
| Gary W Janke | 09/26/2017 | 11/09/2017 |
| Klinger Moving Company | 09/14/2017, 09/18/2017 | 11/09/2017 |
| Chapman University | 10/17/2017 | 11/08/2017 |
| Tween Brands, Inc. | n/a | 11/03/2017 |
| HumanGood | 09/27/2017 | 11/03/2017 |
| Kimberly-Clark Corporation | 10/18/2017 | 11/02/2017 |
| Home Box Office, Inc. | 05/15/2017 | 10/30/2017 |
| Chiorini, Hunt & Jacobs | 07/01/2017, 09/27/2017 | 10/27/2017 |
| The Union Labor Life Insurance Company | 06/22/2017 | 10/27/2017 |
| ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | 04/04/2017 | 10/23/2017 |
| Palomar Health | 09/27/2017 | 10/20/2017 |
| Kaiser Permanente Health Plan | 09/18/2017 | 10/20/2017 |
| Whole Foods Market Services, Inc. | 03/10/2017 | 10/20/2017 |
| Discover Financial Services | 06/01/2016 | 10/19/2017 |
| Discover Financial Services | 04/27/2017 | 10/19/2017 |
| Spark Pay Online Store | 03/10/2017, 04/10/2017 | 10/17/2017 |
| Pizza Hut, Inc. | 10/01/2017, 10/02/2017 | 10/14/2017 |
| Transamerica, including Transamerica Life Insurance Company and Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC | 01/03/2017, 08/29/2017 | 10/13/2017 |
| Hyatt Hotels Corporation | 03/18/2017, 07/02/2017 | 10/12/2017 |
| Community Family Care Medical Group IPA, Inc | 02/29/2016, 07/13/2016 | 10/12/2017 |
| Droege Computing Servi ces | 09/26/2017 | 10/11/2017 |
| Kayser-Roth Corporation | 07/01/2017, 08/09/2017 | 10/09/2017 |
| Provo Craft & Novelty, Inc., d/b/a/ Cricut | 05/27/2017 | 10/06/2017 |
| Catholic United Financial | 11/12/2016 | 10/06/2017 |
| Tommie Copper Inc. | 04/25/2017, 08/29/2017 | 10/06/2017 |
| SyncHR, Inc. | 08/23/2017 | 10/06/2017 |
| SONIC Corp. | n/a | 10/05/2017 |
| Avanti Markets Inc. | 07/04/2017 | 10/05/2017 |
| Cabrillo Community College District | 09/04/2017 | 10/05/2017 |
| FlexShopper, LLC | 08/25/2017, 08/30/2017 | 10/03/2017 |
| Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company | 08/31/2017 | 10/03/2017 |
| The Online Traffic School | n/a | 09/29/2017 |
| Fresno Unified School District | n/a | 09/27/2017 |
| Servis One, Inc. dba BSI Financial Services | 06/01/2017 | 09/27/2017 |
| Wells Fargo Advisors | 07/06/2017 | 09/26/2017 |
| Sprint | 05/07/2017, 07/22/2017 | 09/20/2017 |
| W.W. Grainger, Inc. | 08/23/2017 | 09/19/2017 |
| Signator Investors, Inc. | 06/08/2017 | 09/19/2017 |
| TRUEbenefits LLC | 05/18/2017, 05/19/2017 | 09/18/2017 |
| Bulletproof 360, Inc. | 10/26/2016, 08/28/2017 | 09/15/2017 |
| E. & J. Gallo Winery | 08/18/2017 | 09/15/2017 |
| The International Council of Shopping Centers | 03/24/2017, 08/18/2017 | 09/15/2017 |
| ABB, Inc. | 08/25/2017 | 09/11/2017 |
| Cohn Handler Sturm | 07/29/2017 | 09/08/2017 |
| Home Point Financial Corporation | n/a | 09/08/2017 |
| Equifax Inc. | 05/13/2017, 07/30/2017 | 09/07/2017 |
| SRI International | n/a | 09/07/2017 |