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Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

Advance Auto Parts, Inc.

bd_3cce9ac72fde297a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 7, 2016

Filed

Mar 17, 2016

To disclose

10 days

Affected

376state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Advance Auto Parts, Inc.2 incidents on file

Advance Auto Parts notified employees of a phishing attack on March 7, 2016, where an attacker posed as an employee to obtain a file containing 2015 employee data. Data exposed included names, SSNs, wages, and tax states. Advance notified law enforcement and provided 24 months of identity protection via AllClear ID.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 days

Mar 7, 2016

Begins

Mar 7, 2016

Discovered

Mar 17, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

Show 1 more filingup to 28d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Mar 15 (WA), last Apr 14 (OR) — a 30-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.