MalwareHospitalityRetail & ConsumerHospitalitySkimmerCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPCIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsIdentity (basic)LowContained

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas

bd_38b7093bb534b1e7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 13, 2016

Filed

Jun 27, 2016

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas →2 incidents on file

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas experienced a payment card data breach caused by card scraping malware installed on point-of-sale systems. The malware targeted payment card data (cardholder name, card number, expiration date, and internal verification code) at certain restaurant and retail outlets between October 27, 2015, and March 21, 2016. The incident was discovered on May 13, 2016, after reports of fraudulent activity. The company engaged a cybersecurity firm, notified law enforcement, and worked with payment card networks to monitor affected cards.

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California clockDiscovered May 13, 2016 → Notified Jun 27, 201645d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 199 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 45 days

Oct 27, 2015

Begins

May 13, 2016

Discovered

Jun 27, 2016

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_3a85e72fa11e77b32016-06-27Candidate
Oregon State AGbd_6df8ae9e1331002b2016-06-27Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_9ec347d9c96fa7bc2016-06-27Verified
Montana State AGbd_d50f95ab89e048662016-06-27Verified by operator

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South Carolina State AGbd_7e00aa83e7c937262016-06-28 · +1dVerified

Name: Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
norm: hard rock hotel casino las vegas

Name: Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
norm: hard rock hotel casino las vegas
Industry: HospitalityllmRetail & Consumerllm

Discovered: May 13, 2016
Breach occurred: Oct 27, 2015 – Mar 21, 2016
Undetected for: 199 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 27, 2016
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PCIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1527.001 Compromise Host Software BinaryT1038 Service Application Deployment
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement officials

During the incident: Engaged a leading cyber-security firm to assist
Notified law enforcement officials and is supporting their investigation
Working with the payment card networks so that the banks that issue payment cards can be made aware and initiate heightened monitoring on the affected cards
Continue to work with the cyber security firm to further strengthen the security of our systems to help prevent this from happening in the future
Changes made: Further strengthen the security of our systems to help prevent this from happening in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(45 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 45d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: May 13, 2016
→ Notified: Jun 27, 2016
45d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: May 13, 2016 → Notified: Jun 27, 2016	45d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Washington State AGJun 27 · first

Oregon State AGJun 27 · first

New Hampshire State AGJun 27 · first

Montana State AGJun 27 · first

California State AGJun 27 · first · this page

South Carolina 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-62545
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 27, 2016
Raw hash: 48e235776b5f556421b57a8cf57d7422b36218ed71fdb02a3797b559d39e8595

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas

Victim entityHard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas

Incidentdiscovered May 13, 2016

Stated responseEngaged a leading cyber-security firm to assist

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov