MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData ExfiltratedFinancial accountLowActive

Sonic

bd_3204f342cdf07fdf · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 18, 2017

Filed

Oct 4, 2017

To disclose

16 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Sonic →

Sonic Corp. notified Washington AG that credit and debit card numbers were acquired without authorization via malware at certain Sonic Drive-In locations. Discovery date: Sept 18, 2017. Notification sent Oct 4, 2017. Law enforcement and forensic investigators engaged. Free credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 days

Sep 18, 2017

Discovered

Oct 4, 2017

Filed

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7 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_00c1d99f512e0e782017-10-05 · +1dCandidate
South Carolina State AGbd_76d716030d3740482017-10-05 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c47e6af2d0e49b3d2017-10-05 · +1dVerified

Name: Sonic
norm: sonic
Domain: sonicdrivein.com

Name: Sonic
norm: sonic
Domain: sonicdrivein.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 18, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 4, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Financial account
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Engaged experienced forensic investigators
Offering two years of free credit monitoring and theft protection services
Changes made: Provided consumers with detailed information regarding steps they can take to protect themselves from fraud
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Washington State AGOct 4 · first · this page

California State AG+1d

South Carolina State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+1d

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/BreachM9741.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 4, 2017
Raw hash: bdc55922abe7558f3a443f6d96bb04deec01f3de172f7ad4a09c150904e67cb9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySonic

Victim entitySonic

Incidentdiscovered Sep 18, 2017

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com