MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData ExfiltratedFinancial accountPCILowActive

Sonic

bd_c47e6af2d0e49b3d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 18, 2017

Filed

Oct 5, 2017

To disclose

17 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Sonic →

Sonic Corp. notified the NH Attorney General on Oct 5, 2017, of a malware attack at certain Sonic Drive-In locations where credit/debit card numbers may have been acquired without authorization. Discovery was Sept 18, 2017. Sonic engaged forensic investigators and law enforcement. Affected individuals were offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 days

Sep 18, 2017

Discovered

Oct 5, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_00c1d99f512e0e782017-10-05Candidate
South Carolina State AGbd_76d716030d3740482017-10-05Verified
Washington State AGbd_3204f342cdf07fdf2017-10-04 · +1dVerified

Name: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP
norm: sheppard mullin richter hampton

Name: Sonic
norm: sonic
Domain: sonicdrivein.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 18, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 4, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Financial accountPCI
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcementNotified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Initiated an investigation into the matter
Working with experienced forensic investigators and law enforcement
Publicly informed consumers via a national press release, advertisement in certain local media, and a public announcement on its website
Offering two years of free credit monitoring and theft protection services
Changes made: Offering 24 months of free fraud detection and identity theft protection through Experian’s IdentityWorks program
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Washington State AGOct 4 · first

California State AG+1d

South Carolina State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+1d · this page

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/sonic-20171005.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 5, 2017
Raw hash: 61b75ca7dde0ef601e1c17a9a1c092a164f2b846ae04ea68d0a087f5b9470bde

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

Victim entitySonic

Incidentdiscovered Sep 18, 2017

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov