DisclosureLens
Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentFinancial accountMediumContained

Five Guys Holdings, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 6, 2018

Filed

Nov 2, 2018

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Five Guys Holdings, Inc.5 incidents on file

Five Guys Enterprises, LLC notified California residents that an employee fell victim to a phishing email on August 6, 2018, resulting in unauthorized access to their email account. The incident occurred between May 23, 2018, and August 6, 2018. Affected data may include names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, hire/termination dates, and 401K contribution information. Five Guys secured the account, engaged a cybersecurity firm, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks to affected employees.

Incident timeline

undetected · 75 days
discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 88 days

May 23, 2018

Begins

Aug 6, 2018

Discovered

Nov 2, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGNov 2 · first
California State AGNov 2 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 2 (MT), last Dec 3 (NH) — a 31-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.