MalwareHospitalityHospitalityRansomwareData ExfiltratedTargetedFinancial accountFinancial credentialsLowActive

White Lodging Services Corporation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 16, 2014

Filed

Feb 6, 2014

To disclose

21 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for White Lodging Services Corporation →

White Lodging Services Corporation disclosed a data security incident involving credit and debit card data compromised at point-of-sale systems in food and beverage outlets at multiple hotel properties. The unauthorized access occurred between March 20 and December 16, 2013. The company was first aware of the incident on January 16, 2014. Malicious software was found on POS terminals. Data potentially exposed included card numbers, security codes, and expiration dates. The company engaged forensic investigators and law enforcement (FBI/Secret Service) and offered identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 302 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Mar 20, 2013

Begins

Jan 16, 2014

Discovered

Feb 6, 2014

Filed

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

Name: White Lodging Services Corporation
norm: white lodging
Domain: whitelodging.com

Name: White Lodging Services Corporation
norm: white lodging
Domain: whitelodging.com
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: Jan 16, 2014
Breach occurred: Mar 20, 2013 – Dec 16, 2013
Undetected for: 302 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the U.S. Secret Service and the FBIIn communication with the Indiana Attorney General’s office
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: Contacted the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI
Engaged a third party forensic services provider to conduct an investigation
Notified the credit card companies
Arranged to offer affected guests the option of receiving a year of free identity theft protection services
Changes made: Offering one year of complimentary personal identity protection services to all affected cardholders
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 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/white-lodging-services-20140206.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 6, 2014
Raw hash: a6af8a1a9dc3eabecc5377be2d05c07faaab31550de470ead91d7a1aa732ceec

Reporting entityWhite Lodging Services Corporation

Victim entityWhite Lodging Services Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Jan 16, 2014

Stated responseContacted the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov