Social EngineeringPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTFINANCIALMediumContained
Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
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Full breach record for Advance Auto Parts, Inc. →On March 7, 2016, Advance Auto Parts experienced a phishing attack where an external party posing as an employee tricked an internal employee into providing a file containing employee information. The data exposed included names, Social Security numbers, 2015 gross wages, and tax states. The company notified federal law enforcement and offered 24 months of identity protection services via AllClear ID. The incident affected current and former employees.
California clockDiscovered Mar 7, 2016 → Notified Mar 17, 201610d ✓ CA 60-day OK9 days discovery → filing
This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_3cce9ac72fde297aMontana State AGfiled 2016-03-17(1d gap)Verified
- bd_fd971bcf70ef33edWashington State AGfiled 2016-03-15(1d gap)Candidate
- bd_061f86f700c416dbOregon State AGfiled 2016-04-14(29d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-60518
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 16, 2016
- Raw hash
- 7fa345120e0aad9f2cf79d4fea7e907368d909ae437619775509efbbc86db477
Reporting entity
- Name
- Advance Auto Parts, Inc.norm: advance auto parts
Victim entity
- Name
- Advance Auto Parts, Inc.norm: advance auto parts
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 7, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 17, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTFINANCIAL
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 Phishing
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified federal law enforcement
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 9 days(9 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 10d
- 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: Mar 7, 2016→ Notified: Mar 17, 201610d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.