Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingBECCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIICredentialsMediumContained

U.S. Waffle Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 26, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

2,558state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for U.S. Waffle Inc →

U.S. Waffle, Inc. reported a security event where an employee email account was accessed by an unauthorized actor between January 18, 2023, and March 3, 2023. The actor likely used phishing to gain access and attempted to redirect payments. Personal information in the affected accounts may have been downloaded. The company engaged forensic experts, coordinated with law enforcement, and offered two years of complimentary identity monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline

Jan 18, 2023

Begins

Sep 26, 2023

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_78cc1e2a0adc4fe32023-09-26Verified
Maine State AGbd_d53f2e5a94f02f812023-09-26Verified

Name: U.S. Waffle Inc
norm: us waffle

Name: U.S. Waffle Inc
norm: us waffle
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jan 18, 2023 – Mar 3, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,558state-resident count only
Data types: PIICredentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: coordinated with law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took steps to stop the activity
Launched an investigation with the support of a forensics expert
Coordinated with law enforcement
Offering two years of complimentary identity monitoring services through Kroll
Deploy additional safeguards onto our systems
Reinforcing our security, authentication, and verification practices
Reviewing our systems to enhance security monitoring and controls
Changes made: Deploy additional safeguards onto our systems
Reinforcing our security, authentication, and verification practices
Reviewing our systems to enhance security monitoring and controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 26 · first

Maine State AGSep 26 · first

South Carolina State AGSep 26 · first · 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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/USWaffleInc.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 26, 2023
Raw hash: 1778e0a075f39d1d8b6bee174d61f6df39e21b8b942f24fb5ed3df7d99e37dae

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityU.S. Waffle Inc

Victim entityU.S. Waffle Inc

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseTook steps to stop the activity

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov