Social EngineeringTransportation & LogisticsTransportationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

American Tire Distributors, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 9, 2019

Filed

Feb 11, 2019

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for American Tire Distributors, Inc. →2 incidents on file

American Tire Distributors, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a phishing incident on January 9, 2019, where employees provided credentials to attackers posing as HR. One New Hampshire resident was affected, with potential exposure of name, SSN, driver's license, and financial account numbers. The company engaged forensic investigators and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Jan 9, 2019

Begins

Jan 9, 2019

Discovered

Feb 11, 2019

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

Massachusetts State AGbd_ffdbcd86aa85fadb2019-02-07 · +4dVerified

Name: American Tire Distributors, Inc.
norm: american tire distributors
Domain: troutman.com

Name: American Tire Distributors, Inc.
norm: american tire distributors
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Jan 9, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 9, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 8, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately began an investigation into the matter
Hired a leading specialized forensic IT firm
Mailed a notification letter to the potentially affected New Hampshire resident
Offered credit monitoring and identity theft protection services for 24 months
Changes made: Reviewing office policies and procedures to ensure all security measures are taken to further minimize such an incident from occurring again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 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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Massachusetts State AGFeb 7 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d · 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/american-tires-20190211.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 11, 2019
Raw hash: cde0b2d796e72d783bf2ac15650f525368575c62108e3edf6a0b30a10bec855c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAmerican Tire Distributors, Inc.

Victim entityAmerican Tire Distributors, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 9, 2019

Stated responseImmediately began an investigation into the matter

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov