HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsMediumContained

Dunkin' Brands, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 31, 2018

Filed

Nov 28, 2018

To disclose

28 days

Affected

1,714state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

All records for Dunkin' Brands, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Account takeover notice

Dunkin' Brands, Inc. notified customers of unauthorized access to their accounts. The filing says: “Although Dunkin’ did not experience a data security breach involving its internal systems, we’ve been informed that third-parties obtained usernames and passwords through other companies’ security breaches and used this information to log into some Dunkin’ DD Perks accounts.”

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due28 days 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

discovery → filing · 28 days

Oct 31, 2018

Discovered

Nov 28, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_39f99b715c47b3762018-11-28Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ce99a8da6054f2202018-11-28Verified
Montana State AGbd_e599e179e50000e12018-11-28Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_efd25069f81a91952018-11-28Verified

Name: Dunkin' Brands, Inc.
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Name: Dunkin' Brands, Inc.
norm: dunkin brands
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 31, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 28, 2018
Affected individuals: 1,714state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: reported the incident to law enforcement
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation
Working with our security vendor to remediate this event
Forced a password reset that required all of the potentially impacted DD Perks account holders to log out and log back in to their account using a new password
Taken steps to replace any DD Perks stored value cards with a new account number
Reported the incident to law enforcement and are cooperating with law enforcement
Changes made: Working with our security vendor to remediate this event and to help prevent this kind of event from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC 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

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California State AGNov 28 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 28 · first

Montana State AGNov 28 · first

New Hampshire State AGNov 28 · first

South Carolina State AGNov 28 · first · this page

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2018/DunkinBrandsInc.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 28, 2018
Raw hash: a08aac2b629b4ecdcc71c148327f8e9c420bac8e12f95201b394bad4056fbb85

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDunkin' Brands, Inc.

Victim entityDunkin' Brands, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 31, 2018

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov