HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Fareway Stores, Inc.

bd_64c7d20aa3539586 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 20, 2020

Filed

Apr 16, 2020

To disclose

27 days

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Fareway Stores, Inc. →

Fareway Stores, Inc. notified Montana AG of a data breach involving its third-party payroll processor, PaperlessPay Corporation. An unauthorized individual gained access to the payroll server on Feb 18, 2020. Employee PII (names, SSNs) may have been accessed. Fareway offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 31 days

discovery → filing · 27 days

Feb 18, 2020

Begins

Mar 20, 2020

Discovered

Apr 16, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_33922e70ef8849f32020-04-16Verified
Indiana State AGbd_a31adecf48daad442020-04-16Verified

Name: Fareway Stores, Inc.
norm: fareway stores

Name: Fareway Stores, Inc.
norm: fareway stores
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 20, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 18, 2020
Undetected for: 31 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Third party: via PaperlessPay Corporation
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured TransUnion to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one (1) year
Changes made: Continue to monitor and evaluate the vendor’s efforts to assure the continued security of our information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 16 · first

Indiana State AGApr 16 · first

Montana State AGApr 16 · 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/OCP/Breach-NotificationDetails-155.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 16, 2020
Raw hash: 8d98db5d81804fad99863e8900f28e1b97e344d704decdd1e3511284caa0eb94

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFareway Stores, Inc.

Victim entityFareway Stores, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 20, 2020

Stated responseSecured TransUnion to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one (1) year

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov