MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData EncryptedTargetedAuthenticationIdentity (basic)PIIMediumContained

Famous Smoke Shop

bd_28b6a9e3d973935b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 7, 2021

Filed

Sep 3, 2021

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

32,950state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Famous Smoke Shop →

Famous Smoke Shop notified Washington AG of a ransomware attack on July 7, 2021. Attackers encrypted files containing customer PII (name, DOB, email, purchase history). 32,950 Washington residents affected. Company engaged experts, contained attack, and notified regulators.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 58 days

Jul 7, 2021

Begins

Jul 7, 2021

Discovered

Sep 3, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_5774094e3a7749cf2021-09-03Verified

Name: Famous Smoke Shop
norm: famous smoke shop

Name: Famous Smoke Shop
norm: famous smoke shop
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jul 7, 2021
Breach occurred: Jul 7, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 3, 2021
Affected individuals: 32,950state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Data elements: NameDate of birthUsername + password
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 0dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified certain state regulators

During the incident: Engaged cybersecurity experts
Launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the attack
Stopped the ransomware attack
Notified certain state regulators
Changes made: Reviewing our policies and procedures
Implementing additional safeguards
Working with cybersecurity experts to better protect against future incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Maine State AGSep 3 · first

Washington State AGSep 3 · 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA1100.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 3, 2021
Raw hash: 36360754da251916a4924215122549e35328fbf260356af24cf7dd2c9d18a84c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFamous Smoke Shop

Victim entityFamous Smoke Shop

Incidentdiscovered Jul 7, 2021

Stated responseEngaged cybersecurity experts

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com