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Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentFinancialMediumContained

Advance Auto Parts, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 7, 2016

Filed

Mar 16, 2016

To disclose

9 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Advance Auto Parts, Inc.2 incidents on file

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, 2016Notified Mar 17, 201610d CA 60-day OK9 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 days

Mar 7, 2016

Begins

Mar 7, 2016

Discovered

Mar 16, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 29d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Mar 15 (WA), last Apr 14 (OR) — a 30-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.