MalwareRetailFinancial accountLowContained

Sonic

bd_00c1d99f512e0e78 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 5, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Sonic →

Sonic Corp. reported a malware attack at certain Sonic Drive-In locations where credit and debit card numbers were acquired without authorization. The company engaged law enforcement and third-party forensic investigators. Affected customers were offered 24 months of free fraud detection and identity theft protection via Experian. The incident is contained.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Oct 5, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

South Carolina State AGbd_76d716030d3740482017-10-05Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c47e6af2d0e49b3d2017-10-05Verified
Washington State AGbd_3204f342cdf07fdf2017-10-04 · +1dVerified

Name: Sonic
norm: sonic
Domain: sonicdrivein.com
Industry: retail_consumer

Name: Sonic
norm: sonic
Domain: sonicdrivein.com
Industry: retail_consumer

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Financial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement
Began our own investigation with the help of experienced third-party forensics firms
Offering customers who used their cards at our locations this year to receive 24 months of free fraud detection and identity theft protection through Experian’s IdentityWorks program
Changes made: Offering customers who used their cards at our locations this year to receive 24 months of free fraud detection and identity theft protection through Experian’s IdentityWorks program
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Washington State AGOct 4 · first

South Carolina State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+1d

California State AG+1d · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-102440
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 5, 2017
Raw hash: 3c2b7bb5d94c9a5c14fe969eb5b46b1c831f1f02b6462c0e992baa5fde443373

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySonic

Victim entitySonic

IncidentRansomware

Stated responseContacted law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov