2024 LG Electronics USA — insider-style contractor theft of HR/customer data; multi-state notices
Data compromised
Names, emails, compensation- or HR-oriented fields, and customer-service contact records per investigative and AG-linked descriptions
Technical writeup
LG Electronics U.S.A. issued 2024 breach notices after a contractor allegedly exfiltrated business contact and human-resources data, with specialist breach journalism framing the case as an insider or trusted-party misuse scenario and regulatory mirrors (e.g., Massachusetts) documenting the vendor’s consumer-notification obligations without a single consolidated victim integer in BreachHistory’s open-source pass.
Root cause
Contractor / insider misuse of access to LG USA operational datasets (per DataBreaches.net investigative summary)