MalwareIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

CTH Rentals, LLC

bd_4b7360d83756fb30 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Sep 10, 2021

Filed

Jan 26, 2022

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

27,725state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

63%

Full breach record for CTH Rentals, LLC →

CTH Rentals, LLC notified South Carolina residents of a cybersecurity incident occurring between August 11 and September 10, 2021. Unauthorized individuals deployed malware encrypting network drives and backups. While no evidence of data misuse was found, names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers may have been involved. CTH engaged forensic experts, reset passwords, deployed endpoint monitoring, and offered complimentary identity monitoring services.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due20 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 30 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 138 days

Aug 11, 2021

Begins

Sep 10, 2021

Discovered

Jan 26, 2022

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_37261b12d42bf27b2022-01-24 · +2dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_aa66128420e94d212022-01-10 · +16dVerified
Maine State AGbd_afc1e6d0c1eb111c2022-01-10 · +16dCandidate
Illinois State AGbd_6098ba00869c48872022-01-01 · +25dVerified

Name: CTH Rentals, LLC
norm: cth rentals

Name: CTH Rentals, LLC
norm: cth rentals

Discovered: Sep 10, 2021
Breach occurred: Aug 11, 2021 – Sep 10, 2021
Undetected for: 30 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 10, 2022
Affected individuals: 27,725state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Retained an expert cybersecurity firm to conduct a forensic investigation
Reset all passwords
Deployed an end point monitoring solution
Began the process of upgrading its virus and malware protections
Offering complimentary access to identity monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services
Changes made: Deployed an end point monitoring solution
Began the process of upgrading its virus and malware protections
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(138 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Indiana State AG+9d

Maine State AG+9d

Massachusetts State AG+23d

South Carolina State AG+25d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 26 (SC) — a 25-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.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2022/CTHRentalsLLC.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 26, 2022
Raw hash: 88a9f9131a19410e57336ddd1b3cc3e062ecba1e6f6fa3218537c7ebb16750fa

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCTH Rentals, LLC

Victim entityCTH Rentals, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Sep 10, 2021

Stated responseRetained an expert cybersecurity firm to conduct a forensic investigation

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov