HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIHighContained

Automotive Recovery Services. Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jun 1, 2015

Filed

Jul 9, 2015

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1,163state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Automotive Recovery Services. Inc. →

Automotive Recovery Services, Inc. (dba Vehicle Donation Processing Center) notified Hawaii regulators on July 6, 2015, of a security incident discovered June 1, 2015. Unauthorized access to legacy systems exposed donor PII (names, SSNs, addresses, driver's licenses) collected between July 2012 and May 2015. 1,163 Hawaii residents were notified and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Hawaii clock✓ HI CRA notice due5 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

undetected · 1065 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 38 days

Jul 1, 2012

Begins

Jun 1, 2015

Discovered

Jul 9, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_f0b056337d7829232015-07-10 · +1dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_bbaea8979431c03a2015-07-07 · +2dCandidate
California State AGbd_1d18cd4f39ef11832015-07-06 · +3dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_7c428f9b588f35fe2015-07-06 · +3dVerified

Name: Automotive Recovery Services. Inc.
norm: automotive recovery

Name: Automotive Recovery Services. Inc.
norm: automotive recovery
Also named: Automotive Recovery Services, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Vehicle Donation Processing Centerdba oftrade name
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jun 1, 2015
Breach occurred: Jul 1, 2012 – May 31, 2015
Undetected for: 1,065 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 6, 2015
Affected individuals: 1,163state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection pursuant to Hawaii Rev. Statutes section 487N-2

During the incident: Providing notice to all affected donors
Providing 12 months of identity protection and credit monitoring services through AllClear ID at no cost
Continuing to assess its systems
Actively reviewing its procedures to ensure that personally identifiable information is protected
Changes made: Refining security programs
Implementing additional security layers
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(38 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HI 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 · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

California State AGJul 6 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 6 · first

South Carolina State AG+1d

Hawaii State AG+3d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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://web.archive.org/web/20211024101019id_/https://cca.hawaii.gov/ocp/files/2015/12/OCP-2015-0419.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 9, 2015
Raw hash: c01495b4530f3633332e6f5a11b6b3caad8e96a66fd417412c44ed261a22f96d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAutomotive Recovery Services. Inc.

Victim entityAutomotive Recovery Services. Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 1, 2015

Stated responseProviding notice to all affected donors

ComplianceHI CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceweb.archive.org