Latest / California / February 2019
ShareThis, Inc.
ShareThis, Inc. notified California AG on Feb 28, 2019 of a data breach. Data exposed: Date of birth, Usernames / passwords, Email address, Name.
Case file (dates, days to notice against the statute, what the letter offers, prior incidents)
- Organization
- ShareThis, Inc.
- Source
- California AG · source record
- Date reported
- Feb 28, 2019
- Date(s) of breach
- n/a
- Residents affected
- Not published by this source
- Data exposed
- Date of birth Usernames / passwords Email address Name
- Notice letter
- Sample notice (PDF)
- Discovered
- Feb 11, 2019, as stated in the letter"Nature of the Data Event On February 11, 2019, ShareThis became aware that it suffered a data security incident when it was informed that The Register published a story indicating that 16 companies, including ShareThis, were the victims ..."
- Days to notice
- 17 days from discovery (Feb 11, 2019) to the California record (Feb 28, 2019). Statute: 30 days from discovery or notification of the breach (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.82).
- First seen by BreachTally
- 2026-10-30 16:13 UTC
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