HackingRetail & ConsumerManufacturingRetailStolen CredentialsData MishandlingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Alpha Industries, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 25, 2017

Filed

Oct 2, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

634

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Alpha Industries, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Alpha Industries, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a data breach involving its third-party e-commerce provider, Aptos, Inc. The intrusion occurred between July 6 and August 9, 2017, affecting 634 customers (1 in NH). Data included names, addresses, emails, and payment card details (including CVVs). Alpha is notifying customers and offering one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 50 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 38 days

Jul 6, 2017

Begins

Aug 25, 2017

Discovered

Oct 2, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

Part of Aptos supply-chain incident (2017) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_1c6782b4d4176a492017-10-26 · +24dCandidate

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

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

Discovered: Aug 25, 2017
Breach occurred: Jul 6, 2017 – Aug 9, 2017
Undetected for: 50 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 2, 2017
Affected individuals: 634state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Provided notice to the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via Aptos, Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Engaged a leading cybersecurity firm to determine the scope of the matter
Providing written notice to affected customers
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and an identity theft restoration product by Trans Union
Established a call center to provide information to affected customers
Aptos contacted and offered cooperation with federal law enforcement, specifically the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Changes made: Working to improve the security of its e-commerce solution
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(38 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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New Hampshire State AGOct 2 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+24d

Pattern: first filing Oct 2 (NH), last Oct 26 (NH) — a 24-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/alpha-industries-20171002.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 2, 2017
Raw hash: dcd74741fb0a198f4793df3fd477f3f279d18a184172128b57a935d82a136791

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAlpha Industries, Inc.

Victim entityAlpha Industries, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 25, 2017

Stated responseEngaged a leading cybersecurity firm to determine the scope of the matter

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov