HackingTransportation & LogisticsTransportationStolen CredentialsEmployee Data InvolvedCredentialsLowContained

Virgin America Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 13, 2017

Filed

Jul 26, 2017

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Virgin America Inc. →

Virgin America notified the California Attorney General that an outside party gained unauthorized access to its information systems containing employee and contractor login credentials. The incident was discovered on March 13, 2017. Virgin America engaged forensic experts, notified law enforcement, and required affected individuals to reset passwords.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 135 days

Mar 13, 2017

Discovered

Jul 26, 2017

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_0dfea159c0f1554b2017-07-26Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_bd5c08523004bfcb2017-07-26Verified

Name: Virgin America
norm: virgin america

Name: Virgin America Inc.
norm: virgin america
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Mar 13, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Initiated our incident response protocol
Retained cybersecurity forensic experts to investigate the incident
Reported the matter to law enforcement
Telling all Virgin America employees and contractors to reset their passwords
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(135 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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New Hampshire State AGJul 26 · first

Massachusetts State AGJul 26 · first

California State AGJul 26 · first · 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-100596
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 26, 2017
Raw hash: b525017e066cd89842c024577715fa4bb998b2a3667dd455a0d534d6db80745a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVirgin America

Victim entityVirgin America Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 13, 2017

Stated responseInitiated our incident response protocol

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov