HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedFinancial accountIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Charles Krug

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 27, 2015

Filed

Jun 18, 2015

To disclose

22 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

63%

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Charles Krug Winery notified customers of a security incident involving its third-party provider, Missing Link Networks, Inc. Unauthorized access to personal information, including names, card numbers, passwords, and dates of birth, may have occurred between April 1 and April 30, 2015. The breach was discovered on May 27, 2015. The incident has been contained. Customers were advised to update passwords and monitor accounts.

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California clockDiscovered May 27, 2015 → Notified Jun 10, 201514d ✓ CA 60-day OK22 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 56 days

discovery → filing · 22 days

Apr 1, 2015

Begins

May 27, 2015

Discovered

Jun 18, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Part of Missing Link Network supply-chain incident (2015) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

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

Name: Charles Krug
norm: charles krug
Domain: charleskrug.com

Name: Charles Krug
norm: charles krug
Domain: charleskrug.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: May 27, 2015
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2015 – Apr 30, 2015
Undetected for: 56 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 10, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Financial accountIdentity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Missing Link Networks, Inc.
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Working proactively and aggressively with Missing Link to address the issue
Missing Link has notified the credit and debit card companies and supplied them detailed information on the affected accounts
Recommended customers log into their Charles Krug account and update their password
Encouraged customers to monitor their credit and debit card accounts
Suggested Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) as a resource for customers
Changes made: Missing Link Networks has taken aggressive action to upgrade its security
Missing Link made a sizable investment in system enhancements
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 14d
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 27, 2015
→ Notified: Jun 10, 2015
14d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: May 27, 2015 → Notified: Jun 10, 2015	14d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/sb24-56443
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 18, 2015
Raw hash: 23f35f1dd0344cb3708513a9c1669a4cc3c496b86ec86298d95af2fed563838b

Reporting entityCharles Krug

Victim entityCharles Krug

Incidentdiscovered May 27, 2015

Stated responseWorking proactively and aggressively with Missing Link to address the issue

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov