HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Heitz Wine Cellars

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 27, 2015

Filed

Jun 18, 2015

To disclose

22 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Heitz Wine Cellars →

Heitz Wine Cellars notified customers that its third-party sales provider, Missing Link Networks, Inc., experienced a security incident between April 1 and April 30, 2015. The breach potentially exposed customer names, card numbers, payment addresses, passwords, and dates of birth. Heitz was notified on May 27, 2015. The incident has been contained, and customers were advised to change passwords and monitor accounts.

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California clockDiscovered May 27, 2015 → Notified Jun 11, 201515d ✓ CA 60-day OK22 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 56 days

discovery → filing · 22 days

Apr 1, 2015

Begins

May 27, 2015

Discovered

Jun 18, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Missing Link Network supply-chain incident (2015) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_c082918a6677982f2015-06-22 · +4dVerified

Name: Heitz Wine Cellars
norm: heitz wine cellars

Name: Heitz Wine Cellars
norm: heitz wine cellars
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: May 27, 2015
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2015 – Apr 30, 2015
Undetected for: 56 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 11, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Missing Link Networks, Inc.

During the incident: Notified credit and debit card companies
Advised customers to change passwords
Offered identity theft counseling through Identity Theft Resource Center
Changes made: Missing Link upgraded its security
Missing Link made a sizable investment in system enhancements
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 15d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: May 27, 2015
→ Notified: Jun 11, 2015
15d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: May 27, 2015 → Notified: Jun 11, 2015	15d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGJun 18 · first · 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-56446
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 18, 2015
Raw hash: 4ca960fc98ba8114b7bf05f6e1d1ae94d48c65af0bd3d66a421a403af44c555b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHeitz Wine Cellars

Victim entityHeitz Wine Cellars

Incidentdiscovered May 27, 2015

Stated responseNotified credit and debit card companies

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov