PhysicalFinancial ServicesFinanceTheftCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Heartland Payment Systems, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 8, 2015

Filed

May 28, 2015

To disclose

20 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. reported the theft of password-protected computers from its Santa Ana, California office on February 22, 2015. The company became aware of the incident on May 8, 2015. The stolen devices may have contained Social Security numbers and bank account information for employees/customers. No evidence of data access was found. Heartland engaged law enforcement and provided one year of identity theft protection via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 75 days

discovery → filing · 20 days

Feb 22, 2015

Begins

May 8, 2015

Discovered

May 28, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Name: Heartland Payment Systems, Inc.
norm: heartland payment systems

Name: Heartland Payment Systems, Inc.
norm: heartland payment
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 8, 2015
Breach occurred: Feb 22, 2015
Undetected for: 75 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Involved state and federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies

During the incident: Involved state and federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies
Increased internal security and review procedures
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity theft protection
Changes made: Increased internal security and review procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-56169
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 28, 2015
Raw hash: dd904147cddec4ab9210dbc254c003654b59f05a92f4464fb1ceb994b8a759c5

Reporting entityHeartland Payment Systems, Inc.

Victim entityHeartland Payment Systems, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 8, 2015

Stated responseInvolved state and federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov