HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Car Wash Partners, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 28, 2020

Filed

May 27, 2020

To disclose

29 days

Affected

805state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Car Wash Partners, Inc. →

Car Wash Partners, Inc. (dba Mister Car Wash) notified the WA AG of a security incident affecting 805 Washington residents. Unauthorized access to employee email accounts occurred between Oct 30, 2019 and Jan 14, 2020. Personal info including names, SSNs, driver's licenses, and DOBs was exposed. The company engaged a cybersecurity firm, secured accounts, and offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d29 days discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 181 days

discovery → filing · 29 days

Oct 30, 2019

Begins

Apr 28, 2020

Discovered

May 27, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_169e347ab8b0edae2020-05-27Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_88d8da37c97e1ef22020-05-27Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_5d6f9ec8746a3bf42020-05-28 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_6266950ea93cdadb2020-05-29 · +2dVerified

Name: Baker Law Group
norm: baker law
Domain: jbakerlawgroup.com

Name: Car Wash Partners, Inc.
norm: car wash
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Apr 28, 2020
Breach occurred: Oct 30, 2019 – Jan 14, 2020
Undetected for: 181 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 27, 2020
Affected individuals: 805state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Unauthorized Access
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 100-199dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the Washington Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took steps to secure the email accounts
Launched an investigation
A cybersecurity firm was engaged to assist
Conducted a thorough review of the contents of the email accounts
Sending notification letters via First Class Mail
Changes made: Implementing enhanced security measures, including multifactor authentication
Providing additional data security training to employees
Offering one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection service through Experian
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGMay 27 · first

Indiana State AGMay 27 · first

Washington State AGMay 27 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+2d

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/BreachM10552.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 27, 2020
Raw hash: b810177aff2c44d316e43464c70d899a87da1bbeaa161e8bfe4006c56475910b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBaker Law Group

Victim entityCar Wash Partners, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 28, 2020

Stated responseTook steps to secure the email accounts

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com