Applied Plan Administrators ("APA"), a division of The Retirement Advantage, Inc. ("TRA")

Applied Plan Administrators ("APA"), a division of The Retirement Advantage, Inc. ("TRA") notified California AG on Mar 28, 2018 of a data breach, which occurred on Feb 10, 2018. Data exposed: Social Security number, Financial / bank account, Email address.

Case file (dates, days to notice against the statute, what the letter offers, prior incidents)

Organization: Applied Plan Administrators ("APA"), a division of The Retirement Advantage, Inc. ("TRA")
Source: California AG · source record
Date reported: Mar 28, 2018
Date(s) of breach: Saturday, February 10, 2018
Residents affected: Not published by this source
Data exposed: Social Security number Financial / bank account Email address
Notice letter: Sample notice (PDF)
Discovered: Feb 23, 2018, as stated in the letter
"On February 23, 2018, the forensics firm determined that there was unauthorized access to the single APA account from February 10, 2018 through February 12, 2018."
Days to notice: 33 days from discovery (Feb 23, 2018) to the California record (Mar 28, 2018). Statute: 30 days from discovery or notification of the breach (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.82). Over the statutory period
Offered in the letter: 12 months of credit or identity monitoring
Third party: The letter attributes the incident to a vendor or service provider
First seen by BreachTally: 2026-10-30 16:15 UTC

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