HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

The Atlantic

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 25, 2017

Filed

Oct 10, 2017

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for The Atlantic →5 incidents on file

Atlantic Cigar Company, LLC notified the NH Attorney General of a breach involving its third-party payment processor, Aptos. Unauthorized access occurred July 21–Aug 9, 2017, affecting 9 NH residents. Data exposed included names, addresses, emails, and payment card data. Atlantic is providing 12 months of credit monitoring.

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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

1 wks faster

Part of Aptos supply-chain incident (2017) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9 affectedView incident

Name: The Atlantic
norm: the atlantic
Domain: theatlantic.com

Name: The Atlantic
norm: the atlantic
Domain: theatlantic.com
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: 9state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI
Third party: via Aptos
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Engaged a cybersecurity firm to remediate the incident
Began the process of making customer and regulatory notifications
Providing 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services to affected consumers through All Clear ID
Changes made: Updating our website to make our 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.

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/atlantic-cigar-20171010.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: 0de11e6b4abe976ba4d442d6d229de249b0eb0afe907aa503b98486fdb3e0597

Reporting entityThe Atlantic

Victim entityThe Atlantic

Incidentdiscovered Aug 25, 2017

Stated responseEngaged a cybersecurity firm to remediate the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov