March 2015 — Third-party vendor lost USB drive with employee payroll data

2015 Unknown records affected

Data compromised

Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, wage and tax information

Technical writeup

Apple America Group, LLC informed employees of a data breach when a portable USB flash drive owned by a third party vendor containing payroll information was lost.The information on the portable usb drive included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and wage and tax information.More Information: http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/Non-Massachusetts%20consumer%20notificati...?

Root cause

Portable device theft

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222