HackingTransportation & LogisticsTransportationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)AuthenticationFinancial credentialsLowActive

US Airways, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 12, 2013

Filed

Aug 2, 2013

To disclose

21 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for US Airways, Inc. →3 incidents on file

US Airways notified the NH Attorney General that unauthorized intruders accessed a small number of Dividend Miles accounts using stolen usernames and passwords. Affected data included names, addresses, emails, security questions, DOB, and partial credit card digits. US Airways reset passwords, engaged forensic investigators, and provided credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 21 days

Jul 12, 2013

Discovered

Aug 2, 2013

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_63170fdb51ed5b822013-08-02Candidate

Name: LATHAM & WATKINS LLP
norm: latham watkins

Name: US Airways, Inc.
norm: us airways
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Jul 12, 2013
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)AuthenticationFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Deactivated the affected users’ current passwords and provided them with a new password
Engaged an outside security firm who is also investigating the breach
Working with federal law enforcement officials to investigate this incident
Contracted with LifeLock to provide free one year membership in credit monitoring program
Changes made: Taking steps to ensure that users strengthen their account passwords and select new security questions
Disabled the security questions and answers that users previously completed
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGAug 2 · first

New Hampshire State AGAug 2 · first · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/us-airways-20130802.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 2, 2013
Raw hash: ff53e3e3ec0ecf3b185736a2694744d3be1a6cf78a21d6ef393f6a0c58e5fb53

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLATHAM & WATKINS LLP

Victim entityUS Airways, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 12, 2013

Stated responseDeactivated the affected users’ current passwords and provided them with a new password

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov