MalwareManufacturingTransportation & LogisticsManufacturingRansomwareThe Dark OverlordData EncryptedRansom DemandedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

USA Hoist Company, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 17, 2017

Filed

Nov 20, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for USA Hoist Company, Inc. →

USA Hoist Company, Mid-American Elevator Company, and Mid-American Elevator Equipment Company experienced a ransomware attack on October 17, 2017, attributed to the group 'the Dark Overlord'. The attack encrypted data systems containing employee and vendor information, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, bank account details, and health insurance applications. The company engaged forensic investigators and notified the FBI and state Attorneys General.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 17, 2017 → Notified Nov 14, 201728d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 34 days

Oct 17, 2017

Begins

Oct 17, 2017

Discovered

Nov 20, 2017

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGthe Dark Overlordbd_848a773d408e11d42017-11-14 · +6dCandidate

Name: USA Hoist Company, Inc.
norm: usa hoist

Name: USA Hoist Company, Inc.
norm: usa hoist
Industry: ManufacturingllmTransportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Oct 17, 2017
Breach occurred: Oct 17, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 14, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware· the Dark Overlord
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: The Dark OverlordExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified applicable states' Attorneys GeneralFBI visited our offices to inform us that we may become the subject of such an attack

During the incident: Hired a forensic information technology firm to conduct a thorough investigation of the attack
Prevent any future attacks by increasing our companies' data security
Fully complied with any requests for information from the FBI regarding the breach
Notified applicable states' Attorneys General as required by the relevant states' laws
Changes made: Increasing our companies' data security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(34 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 28d
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: Oct 17, 2017
→ Notified: Nov 14, 2017
28d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 17, 2017 → Notified: Nov 14, 2017	28d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGNov 14 · first

California State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 14 (NH), last Nov 20 (CA) — a 6-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-112319
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 20, 2017
Raw hash: 10e20d103a5af0d01ebcf66780c1ffb5bed5d01741b6e17c46c063c5d2358deb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUSA Hoist Company, Inc.

Victim entityUSA Hoist Company, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 17, 2017

Stated responseHired a forensic information technology firm to conduct a thorough investigation of the attack

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov