HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)PIIHighContained

Panera Bread Company

bd_7f925c65d0001ce9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 23, 2024

Filed

Jun 14, 2024

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

2,036state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Panera Bread Company →3 incidents on file

Panera, LLC notified South Carolina residents of a security incident detected on March 23, 2024. Unauthorized access to internal files resulted in the exposure of names and Social Security numbers of employees. Panera engaged a cybersecurity firm, notified law enforcement, and offered one year of credit monitoring and identity theft insurance to affected individuals.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due12 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 83 days

Mar 23, 2024

Discovered

Jun 14, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

This filing is one of 9 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_1c5d97bc067117c12024-06-13 · +1dCandidate
California State AGbd_5d1ae7fdc2815c452024-06-13 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_879dca8658048d032024-06-13 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_8c1b2b55d3b5f8302024-06-13 · +1dVerified

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 13d gap

Washington State AGbd_b99c53d161d8fb932024-06-13 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ce9e6e38a5bfbbd52024-06-13 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_dc1f326e520ca51a2024-06-13 · +1dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_42072bc8d7271f862024-06-01 · +13dVerified

Name: Panera Bread Company
norm: panera bread
Domain: panerabread.com

Name: Panera Bread Company
norm: panera bread
Domain: panerabread.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 23, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,036state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)PII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: A cybersecurity firm was engaged
Notified law enforcement
Changes made: Panera has taken steps to further enhance existing security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(83 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 9 states

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Illinois State AGJun 1 · first

Montana State AG+12d

California State AG+12d

Indiana State AG+12d

New Hampshire State AG+12d

Washington State AG+12d

Massachusetts State AG+12d

Maine State AG+12d

South Carolina State AG+13d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jun 1 (IL), last Jun 14 (SC) — a 13-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/PaneraLLC.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 14, 2024
Raw hash: 35c54f24e025a505f7abffb1484229240c511458dfea77c032292782a9b51ce2

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPanera Bread Company

Victim entityPanera Bread Company

Incidentdiscovered Mar 23, 2024

Stated responseA cybersecurity firm was engaged

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov