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HackingRetail & ConsumerHospitalityRetailSkimmerCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedFinancial accountPIILowContained

Landry's, Inc. (Golden Nugget Atlantic City, LLC)

bd_b6b7aa36dad13ac8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 1, 2014

Filed

Feb 29, 2016

To disclose

15 months

Affected

27state residents only

Confidence

63%
Full breach record for Landry's, Inc. (Golden Nugget Atlantic City, LLC)

Landry's, Inc. and Golden Nugget reported a payment card skimming incident where attackers installed malware on POS devices to capture magnetic stripe data. The incident occurred between May 2014 and December 2015. Suspicious activity was first detected in early December 2014. Affected data includes cardholder names, numbers, expiration dates, and verification codes. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed in this filing.

Incident timeline

undetected · 211 days
discovery → filing · 15 months / 455 days

May 4, 2014

Begins

Dec 1, 2014

Discovered

Feb 29, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

+57 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed27 affectedView incident

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.