HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 23, 2024

Filed

Jul 10, 2024

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

12 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED →

Advance Stores Company (Advance Auto Parts) notified consumers of a data breach involving its cloud storage vendor, Snowflake. An unauthorized third party accessed personal information, including SSNs and driver's license numbers, from job applications between April 14 and May 24, 2024. The company terminated access, notified law enforcement, and offered credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday7 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 39 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Apr 14, 2024

Begins

May 23, 2024

Discovered

Jul 10, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 12 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_05efc0c2fe52540b2024-07-10Candidate
Montana State AGbd_52776d6829ed95402024-07-10Verified
Delaware State AGbd_699d2fe90e0953682024-07-10Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_879fd3f910e4606a2024-07-10Verified

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California State AGbd_b687cfd83b56a4922024-07-10Verified
Oregon State AGbd_bc5881d478a606782024-07-10Verified
Maine State AGbd_ca64838043f7afce2024-07-10Verified
Indiana State AGbd_ed8b68d77c0f43f52024-07-10Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_edb18f0a419409c12024-07-10Verified
South Carolina State AGbd_cba4eeb41cd173242024-07-11 · +1dVerified

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Name: ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED
norm: advance stores

Name: ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED
norm: advance stores
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: May 23, 2024
Breach occurred: Apr 14, 2024 – May 24, 2024
Undetected for: 39 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 10, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Terminated the unauthorized access
Notified law enforcement
Worked with third-party cybersecurity experts to take steps to further harden our systems
Providing complimentary access to credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian
Changes made: Worked with third-party cybersecurity experts to take steps to further harden our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 11 states

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Washington State AGJul 10 · first

Montana State AGJul 10 · first

Delaware State AGJul 10 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 10 · first

California State AGJul 10 · first

Oregon State AGJul 10 · first

Maine State AGJul 10 · first

Indiana State AGJul 10 · first

Massachusetts State AGJul 10 · first

Vermont State AGJul 10 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+1d

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 11 — the full spread may be wider.

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-07-10-advance-stores-company-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 10, 2024
Raw hash: 49a4b92a69f2dbe79709904a279f208fa32f992c3279c259561910de6b8ac6bf

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED

Victim entityADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED

Incidentdiscovered May 23, 2024

Stated responseTerminated the unauthorized access

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov