HackingHospitalityHospitalitySkimmerTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Merani Hospitality, Inc

bd_1f1e3525ad86d75b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 14, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

584state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Merani Hospitality, Inc →2 incidents on file

Merani Hospitality, Inc. reported a skimmer incident at a NY restaurant where unauthorized code captured customer names and credit card details between Feb 2017 and May 2020. Approximately 584 Washington residents were affected. Merani removed the code, engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement and card brands, and secured the system.

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Incident timeline

Feb 16, 2017

Begins

Jul 14, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_678b2a752a39170b2020-07-15 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_9570491ea071e2212020-07-15 · +1dCandidate
California State AGbd_9f7522da74b1b6852020-07-15 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_396e3c3c43497b812020-07-17 · +3dVerified

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Indiana State AGbd_e6b71caf85c62ffa2020-07-10 · +4dVerified

Name: Merani Hospitality, Inc
norm: merani hospitality

Name: Merani Hospitality, Inc
norm: merani hospitality
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Feb 16, 2017 – May 20, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 10, 2020
Affected individuals: 584state-resident count only
Data types: PIIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Data elements: NameFinancial account number
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure 500+d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage ObjectT1056 Input Capture
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Attorney General
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: Retained a forensic security firm to investigate the incident
Removed the malicious code from its payment processing system
Notified law enforcement
Alerted the credit card brands of the incident so they can monitor affected customers’ credit and debit card accounts for potential fraudulent activity
Took additional technical steps to further secure the restaurant’s payment processing system
Changes made: Taken additional technical steps to further secure the restaurant’s payment processing system to prevent this type of incident from occurring in the future
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 · 6 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGJul 10 · first

Washington State AG+4d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

California State AG+5d

New Hampshire State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Jul 10 (IN), last Jul 17 (NH) — a 7-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/BreachM10571.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 14, 2020
Raw hash: 802b53c4b66ecc1dbb7c0b1d52717739ada23eb7cd48cbd68b82fa5d68b46120

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMerani Hospitality, Inc

Victim entityMerani Hospitality, Inc

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseRetained a forensic security firm to investigate the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com