Northern Trust Company

Northern Trust Company

The California Office of the Attorney General reported that Northern Trust experienced a data breach on May 17, 2014. The breach involved the inadvertent disclosure of personal information, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and benefits account numbers of an unknown number of individuals. The notification was provided on July 29, 2014.

Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-46054

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/northern-trust

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"linkid": "northern-trust",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "5/2014",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Finance',
                        'location': 'California',
                        'name': 'Northern Trust',
                        'type': 'Financial Institution'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Inadvertent Disclosure',
 'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['names',
                                              'addresses',
                                              'Social Security numbers',
                                              'benefits account numbers']},
 'date_detected': '2014-05-17',
 'date_publicly_disclosed': '2014-07-29',
 'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported that '
                'Northern Trust experienced a data breach on May 17, 2014. The '
                'breach involved the inadvertent disclosure of personal '
                'information, including names, addresses, Social Security '
                'numbers, and benefits account numbers of an unknown number of '
                'individuals. The notification was provided on July 29, 2014.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
                                 'addresses',
                                 'Social Security numbers',
                                 'benefits account numbers']},
 'references': [{'date_accessed': '2014-07-29',
                 'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
 'title': 'Northern Trust Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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