Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumActive

Five Guys Holdings, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 6, 2018

Filed

Nov 6, 2018

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Five Guys Holdings, Inc. →5 incidents on file

Five Guys Holdings, Inc. notified the NH AG of a phishing incident on Aug 6, 2018, compromising an employee email. Access may have exposed PII of 5 NH residents (employees/vendors), including SSNs and financial data. Five Guys engaged forensic investigators, secured the account, and offered 1-year credit monitoring. Investigation into full scope was ongoing at time of filing.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 92 days

Aug 6, 2018

Discovered

Nov 6, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+6 wks slower

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

California State AGbd_07f36ad709cc046f2018-11-02 · +4dCandidate
Montana State AGbd_956df4f5240be8cc2018-11-02 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_dd813d29e6e97c362018-11-30 · +24dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_737fd489118d8ac92018-12-03 · +27dVerified

Name: Five Guys Holdings, Inc.
norm: five guys
Domain: fiveguys.com

Name: Five Guys Holdings, Inc.
norm: five guys
Domain: fiveguys.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Aug 6, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 2, 2018
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately took action to secure the account
Initiate an investigation
Engage a leading data forensics firm to assist
Engaged additional firms to assist searching the contents of the inbox
Offering eligible individuals involved a complimentary one-year membership in credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian
Changes made: Adding further technical safeguards
Conducting additional security training for its employees
Implement multi-factor authentication
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(92 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 3 states

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California State AGNov 2 · first

Montana State AGNov 2 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d · this page

California State AG+28d

New Hampshire State AG+31d

Pattern: first filing Nov 2 (CA), last Dec 3 (NH) — a 31-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/five-guys-holdings-20181106.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 6, 2018
Raw hash: 30300a67b347f71b05807a95b3033e3198b1b67c1306040ba918fdf791357bee

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFive Guys Holdings, Inc.

Victim entityFive Guys Holdings, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 6, 2018

Stated responseImmediately took action to secure the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov