MalwareFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinanceRansomwareData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Spark Pay Online Store

bd_31e20ffa8d1cc464 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 6, 2017

Filed

Oct 16, 2017

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

1,352state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

69%

Spark Pay Online Store, a subsidiary of Capital One, disclosed a cyberattack involving malicious code on merchant websites. The incident, occurring between March 10 and June 7, 2017, and discovered on June 6, 2017, compromised payment card data and PII of 1,352 Washington residents. Capital One notified the FBI and provided credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 88 days

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 132 days

Mar 10, 2017

Begins

Jun 6, 2017

Discovered

Oct 16, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_2ee2223546ca62a52017-10-16Verified
California State AGbd_c208f202aa0bd7f72017-10-17 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_dd1bda0f39e694662017-07-12 · +96dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_60c2d7a861289f692017-07-07 · +101dVerified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_11ca029a8d7f275f2017-07-06 · +102dCandidate
Montana State AGbd_f00cac85c92914092017-07-06 · +102dVerified
California State AGbd_f649ec3a6914c8532017-07-06 · +102dVerified

Name: Spark Pay (Capital One)
norm: spark pay capital one

Name: Spark Pay Online Store
norm: spark pay online store
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jun 6, 2017
Breach occurred: Mar 10, 2017 – Jun 7, 2017
Undetected for: 88 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 17, 2017
Affected individuals: 1,352state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Data elements: NameFinancial account number
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoing
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationAlerted the payment card networks
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Took the relevant merchant websites offline
Removed the malicious code
Performed security testing
Alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Alerted the payment card networks
Changes made: Provided two years of complimentary credit monitoring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(132 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states

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New Hampshire State AGJul 6 · first

Montana State AGJul 6 · first

California State AGJul 6 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+6d

New Hampshire State AG+102d

Washington State AG+102d · this page

California State AG+103d

Pattern: first filing Jul 6 (NH), last Oct 17 (CA) — a 103-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/BreachM10498.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 16, 2017
Raw hash: 377abd005c3ca3bcde6847f533ea59ce5efbe0b7c249c2c31511f0114b0ace1c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySpark Pay (Capital One)

Victim entitySpark Pay Online Store

Incidentdiscovered Jun 6, 2017

Stated responseTook the relevant merchant websites offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com