PhysicalRetail & ConsumerRetailTheftEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentPIIMediumContained

Cheddar's Casual Cafe, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 29, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

15state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Cheddar's Casual Cafe, Inc. →

Cheddar's Casual Cafe, Inc. (d/b/a Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen) notified the NH Attorney General of a physical break-in at a corporate facility in Texas on July 21, 2017. Laptops and a hard drive containing employee and limited guest personal information, including Social Security numbers, were stolen. Approximately 15 New Hampshire residents were affected. The company reported the incident to law enforcement, engaged forensic experts, and offered 12 months of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

Jul 21, 2017

Begins

Sep 29, 2017

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_3db27cf9bd07332f2017-09-29Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_8df2c0715c3f65052017-11-15 · +47dVerified
California State AGbd_dd2ef542e27096492017-11-15 · +47dVerified

Name: Cheddar's Casual Cafe, Inc. d/b/a Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen
norm: cheddars casual cafe

Name: Cheddar's Casual Cafe, Inc.
norm: cheddar s casual cafe
Also named: Cheddar's Casual Cafe, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Cheddar's Scratch Kitchendba oftrade name
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jul 21, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 29, 2017
Affected individuals: 15state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General's Office

During the incident: Reported the incident to law enforcement
Began a rigorous investigation to identify any potentially affected individuals
Recreating the data contained on the stolen equipment from back-up
Engaged data search experts to review this information
Contacted law enforcement
Cooperating in the investigation of this illegal activity
Changes made: Taking steps to review security practices in order to help prevent this type of incident from occurring again
Providing all affected individuals with twelve months of identity protection services
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 · 3 states

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Montana State AGSep 29 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 29 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+47d

California State AG+47d

Pattern: first filing Sep 29 (MT), last Nov 15 (CA) — a 47-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/cheddars-casual-cafe-20170929.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 29, 2017
Raw hash: 22075072e58852a05b3b244d7d6a0a7dffdfeae0f57cb5a45795baffca3209c0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCheddar's Casual Cafe, Inc. d/b/a Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen

Victim entityCheddar's Casual Cafe, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseReported the incident to law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov