Altice USA, Inc.

The California Attorney General reported a data breach involving Altice USA on February 6, 2020. The breach occurred on November 4, 2019, when an unauthorized third party accessed employee email account credentials through a phishing incident, potentially exposing personal information including names, Social Security numbers, and addresses.

Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-187076

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/altice-usa

"id": "alt315072725",
"linkid": "altice-usa",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "11/2019",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Telecommunications',
                        'name': 'Altice USA',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Phishing',
 'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Names',
                                              'Social Security numbers',
                                              'Addresses']},
 'date_detected': '2019-11-04',
 'date_publicly_disclosed': '2020-02-06',
 'description': 'The California Attorney General reported a data breach '
                'involving Altice USA on February 6, 2020. The breach occurred '
                'on November 4, 2019, when an unauthorized third party '
                'accessed employee email account credentials through a '
                'phishing incident, potentially exposing personal information '
                'including names, Social Security numbers, and addresses.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Names',
                                 'Social Security numbers',
                                 'Addresses']},
 'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Employee email account credentials'},
 'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': 'Phishing incident'},
 'references': [{'date_accessed': '2020-02-06',
                 'source': 'California Attorney General'}],
 'threat_actor': 'Unauthorized third party',
 'title': 'Altice USA Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Employee email account credentials'}