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PhysicalRetail & ConsumerRetailTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumActive

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 21, 2017

Filed

Sep 29, 2017

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

43state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen reported a break-in at a Texas corporate facility on July 21, 2017, resulting in the theft of laptops and a hard drive containing employee and limited guest PII, including SSNs. Law enforcement was notified, and affected individuals were offered 12 months of identity theft protection.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 70 days

Jul 21, 2017

Begins

Jul 21, 2017

Discovered

Sep 29, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGSep 29 · first
Montana State AGSep 29 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 29 (NH), last Nov 15 (CA) — a 47-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.