HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountPCILowContained

Atlantic Cigar Co.

bd_3f9e08bdd365f4f6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 25, 2017

Filed

Oct 10, 2017

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Atlantic Cigar Co. →3 incidents on file

Atlantic Cigar Company notified customers that third-party provider Aptos experienced a security incident from July 21 to August 9, 2017, resulting in unauthorized access to payment card data and PII. The company engaged a cybersecurity firm and offered 12 months of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 35 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Jul 21, 2017

Begins

Aug 25, 2017

Discovered

Oct 10, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_e5f9b7082a74a6292017-10-10Verified

Name: Atlantic Cigar Co.
norm: atlantic cigar

Name: Atlantic Cigar Co.
norm: atlantic cigar
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Aug 25, 2017
Breach occurred: Jul 21, 2017 – Aug 9, 2017
Undetected for: 35 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 11, 2017
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountPCI
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Third party: via Aptos
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Aptos worked with a leading cybersecurity firm to prevent further intrusions into its systems
Updating website to make payment systems more secure
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect identity for 12 months at no cost
Changes made: Updating website to make payment systems more secure
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGOct 10 · first

Montana State AGOct 10 · first · this page

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Atlantic-Cigar-Company.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 10, 2017
Raw hash: ebada870a8784b619d83a48d65de6cc5bbaaf7e56759102815a8193e3ae96dfd

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAtlantic Cigar Co.

Victim entityAtlantic Cigar Co.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 25, 2017

Stated responseAptos worked with a leading cybersecurity firm to prevent further intrusions into its systems

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov