MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)PIIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Alpha Industries, Inc.

bd_844b26a089b7d69c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 6, 2017

Filed

Feb 27, 2017

To disclose

21 days

Affected

57state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Alpha Industries, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Alpha Industries notified Montana AG of a data breach involving its third-party payment platform provider, Aptos. Intrusion occurred Feb-Dec 2016. Malware placed on servers accessed customer PII and payment card data. Notification delayed by law enforcement. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 371 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Feb 1, 2016

Begins

Feb 6, 2017

Discovered

Feb 27, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_6d9248eda249913a2017-02-25 · +2dCandidate
Oregon State AGbd_9ad577efe8b294302017-03-09 · +10dVerified by operator

Name: Alpha Industries, Inc.
norm: alpha industries
Domain: alphaindustries.com

Name: Alpha Industries, Inc.
norm: alpha industries
Domain: alphaindustries.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Feb 6, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2016 – Dec 31, 2016
Undetected for: 371 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 6, 2017
Affected individuals: 57state-resident count only
Data types: PIIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: law enforcement is investigating
Third party: via Aptos
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Aptos has worked with a leading cybersecurity firm to remove the malware from its systems
Actively monitoring the platform to safeguard personal information
Contacted and offered its cooperation to federal law enforcement
Supply the numbers of affected cards to their issuers for monitoring
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and an identity theft protection product by Equifax
Changes made: Partnered with Equifax to provide its Credit Watch Silver credit monitoring and identity theft protection product for one year
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.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Washington State AGFeb 25 · first

Montana State AG+2d · this page

Oregon State AG+12d

Pattern: first filing Feb 25 (WA), last Mar 9 (OR) — a 12-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Alpha-Industries.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 27, 2017
Raw hash: 248c6711e763698bfff28ffd97dece4d5b96f720efbfc6efdcc1065fd9b38b87

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAlpha Industries, Inc.

Victim entityAlpha Industries, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 6, 2017

Stated responseAptos has worked with a leading cybersecurity firm to remove the malware from its systems

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov