The California Office of the Attorney General reported a data breach involving The Boeing Company on February 8, 2017. The breach occurred on November 21, 2016, when an employee sent an email containing sensitive personal information of other employees to his non-Boeing spouse. The information included names, social security numbers, and dates of birth, with the number of affected individuals currently unknown.
Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-66255
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/boeing
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"linkid": "boeing",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "11/2016",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Aerospace',
'location': 'United States',
'name': 'The Boeing Company',
'type': 'Corporation'}],
'attack_vector': 'Email',
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['Names',
'Social Security '
'Numbers',
'Dates of Birth'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personally Identifiable '
'Information']},
'date_detected': '2017-02-08',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2017-02-08',
'description': 'An employee sent an email containing sensitive personal '
'information of other employees to his non-Boeing spouse.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Names',
'Social Security Numbers',
'Dates of Birth']},
'motivation': 'Accidental',
'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': 'Human Error'},
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2017-02-08',
'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
'threat_actor': 'Internal Employee',
'title': 'Boeing Company Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Human Error'}