Area Wide Protective

The California Office of the Attorney General reported on May 10, 2022, that Area Wide Protective experienced a data breach involving unauthorized access to several employee email accounts on or around November 30, 2021. The potentially accessed personal information may have included the names of individuals, but the exact number of affected individuals is unknown.

Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-553258

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/awpsafety

"id": "awp102072725",
"linkid": "awpsafety",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "11/2021",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'name': 'Area Wide Protective', 'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Email Compromise',
 'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['Names'],
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal Information']},
 'date_detected': '2021-11-30',
 'date_publicly_disclosed': '2022-05-10',
 'description': 'Unauthorized access to several employee email accounts '
                'potentially compromising personal information including names '
                'of individuals.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Names of individuals'],
            'systems_affected': ['Employee email accounts']},
 'references': [{'date_accessed': '2022-05-10',
                 'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
 'title': 'Area Wide Protective Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}