HackingHospitalityHospitalityStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowActive

Hotel Beacon

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 25, 2015

Filed

May 19, 2015

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Hotel Beacon →

Hotel Beacon notified NH AG of a data security event affecting 9 NH residents. Payment card processing systems were compromised by a third-party intruder between Jan 8 and Mar 25, 2015. Credit card info (name, number, expiration, CVV) was accessed. Hotel Beacon retained forensic experts, replaced the affected server, and offered 1 year of identity protection services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 76 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 55 days

Jan 8, 2015

Begins

Mar 25, 2015

Discovered

May 19, 2015

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_5a7f2b97af95b05a2015-05-26 · +7dVerified

Name: Hotel Beacon
norm: hotel beacon

Name: Hotel Beacon
norm: hotel beacon
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: Mar 25, 2015
Breach occurred: Jan 8, 2015 – Mar 25, 2015
Undetected for: 76 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 15, 2015
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: Financial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Provided written notice of this incident to other United States and international regulators as required by law
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Retained forensics experts to confirm the nature of this incident and the full scope of affected individuals
Provided written notice of this incident to affected individuals
Offered access to one (1) free year of identity protection services and identity restoration services
Provided written notice of this incident to other United States and international regulators as required by law
Reviewed its systems
Replaced the affected server
Continues to monitor its payment card processing environment for any signs of unauthorized access
Changes made: Reviewing its systems
Replacing the affected hardware
Appropriate remediation
Replaced the affected server
Continues to monitor its payment card processing environment for any signs of unauthorized access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(55 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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New Hampshire State AGMay 19 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing May 19 (NH), last May 26 (MA) — a 7-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/hotel-beacon-20150519.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 19, 2015
Raw hash: 1f375eb3a139abee005890a5a20fb806f53dc7bc497fcdda8f59c650bced422a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHotel Beacon

Victim entityHotel Beacon

Incidentdiscovered Mar 25, 2015

Stated responseRetained forensics experts to confirm the nature of this incident and the full scope of affected individuals

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov