MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailSkimmerData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPCIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Service Systems Associates, Inc.

bd_a83cea037edfa580 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 13, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Service Systems Associates, Inc. →

Service Systems Associates, Inc. (SSA) experienced a data security breach between March 24 and May 20, 2015, affecting point-of-sale systems in gift shops at several zoo locations. Malware on the POS systems compromised payment card data, including names and credit card numbers. SSA engaged forensic investigators, removed the malware, and notified credit card companies. Affected individuals were offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

Mar 24, 2015

Begins

Oct 13, 2015

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_3f2374047b0151ff2015-10-13Candidate
Washington State AGbd_770b94243422682a2015-10-13Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_edd34f095b75f6e62015-10-13Verified
South Carolina State AGbd_775be2851ce35d292015-10-19 · +6dVerified

Name: Service Systems Associates, Inc.
norm: service systems associates

Name: Service Systems Associates, Inc.
norm: service systems associates
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 24, 2015 – May 20, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 13, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PCIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Working with law enforcement officials

During the incident: Investigated the breach, working alongside Sikich, an independent forensic investigator
Identified and removed the malware that caused the breach
Notified the major credit card companies of this situation
Collaborated with affected zoos to alert their patrons
Offering one year of fraud protection
Offering affected individuals access to one year of credit monitoring services at no cost
Changes made: Implemented dual authentication for remote access
Deployed encryption devices
Elimination of keyboard based mag readers
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Montana State AGOct 13 · first

Washington State AGOct 13 · first

New Hampshire State AGOct 13 · first

California State AGOct 13 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Oct 13 (MT), last Oct 19 (SC) — 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/sb24-58264
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 13, 2015
Raw hash: 81928bcf2bc5275d2507925ffdbe11f5c19503cf7942b21f63c2c26f650bcb7a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityService Systems Associates, Inc.

Victim entityService Systems Associates, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseInvestigated the breach, working alongside Sikich, an independent forensic investigator

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov