MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Century, LLC

bd_116127ebd6a53cab · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 1, 2016

Filed

Feb 25, 2017

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

639state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Century, LLC →

Century, LLC reported a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to its e-commerce platform hosted by third-party provider Aptos, Inc. The intrusion, which occurred between February and December 2016, exposed customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and payment card data. Century notified 639 Washington residents in February 2017.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 249 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 116 days

Feb 26, 2016

Begins

Nov 1, 2016

Discovered

Feb 25, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_4d85b9eb31b78baf2017-02-19 · +6dCandidate
Oregon State AGbd_00dfd748041eb7212017-03-10 · +13dVerified

Name: Century, LLC
norm: century

Name: Century, LLC
norm: century
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Nov 1, 2016
Breach occurred: Feb 26, 2016 – Dec 5, 2016
Undetected for: 249 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 19, 2017
Affected individuals: 639state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Aptos contacted Federal law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Department of JusticeLaw enforcement requested Aptos delay notifying its retailer customers
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Aptos worked with law enforcement to provide the numbers of the affected cards to the issuers for additional security monitoring
Aptos worked with a leading cybersecurity firm to remove the malware from their servers
Aptos is also fully cooperating with federal law enforcement
Changes made: Mandiant, a leading cybersecurity firm, completed the removal of the malware from their servers
Aptos continues to actively monitor their platform to safeguard personal information going forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(116 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGFeb 19 · first

Washington State AG+6d · this page

Oregon State AG+19d

Pattern: first filing Feb 19 (MT), last Mar 10 (OR) — a 19-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.

Source URL: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM9680.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 25, 2017
Raw hash: fb018ae71e7cc383697148418e19e550f60818c688529ed1e3c5ba511c7f5b1e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCentury, LLC

Victim entityCentury, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Nov 1, 2016

Stated responseAptos worked with law enforcement to provide the numbers of the affected cards to the issuers for additional security monitoring

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com