Source methodology
Implemented official source
California Attorney General Data Security Breach List
One row in the official full data breach CSV
Historical public CSV.
- Regulator
- California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General
- Jurisdiction
- California
- Reporting scheme
- California Civil Code sections 1798.29 and 1798.82
- Publication level
- Named Notification
- Coverage type
- Complete Published Dataset
- Reporting threshold
- The source list concerns sample notices submitted when more than 500 California residents are notified.
- Source population
- Organizations that sent sample breach notices published by the California Attorney General.
- Licence state
- California Department of Justice website content is considered public domain, subject to third-party exclusions.
- Rights boundary reviewed
- 23 July 2026
- Redistribution decision
- Approved With Conditions
- Automated health
- Healthy
- Snapshot completeness
- Complete
- Update checkpoint
- Complete
- Reviewed record floor
- 1,000
- Accepted records
- 5,221
- Rejected records
- 0
- Bounded retrieval limit
- 20,000
- Source revision
- 334da7afb8a4b6a3
- Snapshot checksum
- 334da7afb8a4b6a32c180171f5a624b34b7da26974aec6d7bb57e45ea7cf8e4c
- Latest update attempt
- 24 July 2026
- Last successful update
- 24 July 2026
Limitations
- The organization is the source-labelled notifier and may not be the entity where the event occurred.
- The current official CSV includes one historical row where the organization name is omitted; Breach Gazette preserves that state without creating an organization identity.
- The CSV has no stable source record identifier or detail URL.
- Breach Gazette does not retrieve sample notification letters.
Correction process
Check the current official CSV and list page; do not retrieve or reproduce sample notification letters.
Attribution
State of California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General