HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 23, 2024

Filed

Jul 10, 2024

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

12 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED →

Advance Stores Company, Incorporated (Advance Auto Parts) disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed information stored in Snowflake, its cloud vendor, from April 14 to May 24, 2024. The company learned of the incident on May 23, 2024. Affected data includes names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and dates of birth for job applicants. The company terminated access, notified law enforcement, engaged cybersecurity experts, and offered credit monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered May 23, 2024 → Notified Jul 10, 202448d ✓ CA 60-day OK7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 39 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Apr 14, 2024

Begins

May 23, 2024

Discovered

Jul 10, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 12 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_05efc0c2fe52540b2024-07-10Candidate
Vermont State AGbd_2136d1e78c22a08f2024-07-10Verified
Montana State AGbd_52776d6829ed95402024-07-10Verified
Delaware State AGbd_699d2fe90e0953682024-07-10Verified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_879fd3f910e4606a2024-07-10Verified
Oregon State AGbd_bc5881d478a606782024-07-10Verified
Maine State AGbd_ca64838043f7afce2024-07-10Verified
Indiana State AGbd_ed8b68d77c0f43f52024-07-10Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_edb18f0a419409c12024-07-10Verified
South Carolina State AGbd_cba4eeb41cd173242024-07-11 · +1dVerified

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Name: ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED
norm: advance stores

Name: ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED
norm: advance stores
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: May 23, 2024
Breach occurred: Apr 14, 2024 – May 24, 2024
Undetected for: 39 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 10, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Snowflake
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Terminated the unauthorized access
Notified law enforcement
Engaged third-party cybersecurity experts
Provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian
Changes made: Took proactive measures aimed at preventing future unauthorized access
Working with third-party cybersecurity experts to further harden systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 48d
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: May 23, 2024
→ Notified: Jul 10, 2024
48d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: May 23, 2024 → Notified: Jul 10, 2024	48d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 11 states

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Washington State AGJul 10 · first

Vermont State AGJul 10 · first

Montana State AGJul 10 · first

Delaware State AGJul 10 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 10 · first

Oregon State AGJul 10 · first

Maine State AGJul 10 · first

Indiana State AGJul 10 · first

Massachusetts State AGJul 10 · first

California State AGJul 10 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+1d

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 11 — the full spread may be wider.

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/sb24-588394
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 10, 2024
Raw hash: 93aa2d4782c026fe11907a3c8b2b75b14ccf5b1215e86e2d8def5d0edc2e86e2

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED

Victim entityADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INCORPORATED

Incidentdiscovered May 23, 2024

Stated responseTerminated the unauthorized access

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov