MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailInfostealerCapture Stored DataSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPCIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsIdentity (basic)LowContained

Mall Services Group LLC

bd_cd927be9565e105d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 1, 2022

Filed

Jul 29, 2022

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Mall Services Group LLC →

Mall Services Group LLC (dba ChevyMall.com) notified customers that malware on a third-party payment vendor's servers may have captured payment card information (card number, expiration, security code) and billing details for transactions between September 18, 2020, and February 3, 2022. The vendor discovered the malware in early February 2022 after another customer alerted them, removed it, and notified law enforcement. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed.

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California clockDiscovered Feb 1, 2022 → Notified Jul 29, 2022178d ✗ CA 60-day late25 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 501 days

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 178 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Feb 1, 2022

Discovered

Jul 29, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+18 wks slower

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

Name: Mall Services Group LLC
norm: mall services
Domain: chevymall.com

Name: Mall Services Group LLC
norm: mall services
Domain: chevymall.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Feb 1, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 18, 2020 – Feb 3, 2022
Undetected for: 501 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 29, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PCIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1056 Input CaptureT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcement authorities
Third party: via Third-party vendor
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Vendor identified and removed malware
Vendor blocked further unauthorized activity
Vendor retained data security experts to conduct investigation
Vendor notified federal law enforcement authorities
Vendor coordinated with payment card companies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(178 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 178d
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: Feb 1, 2022
→ Notified: Jul 29, 2022
178d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Feb 1, 2022 → Notified: Jul 29, 2022	178d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

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/sb24-555761
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 29, 2022
Raw hash: 66757d11e24b89fbc3a64f8da8ab39dcaf0caef86e7489cea11b449896dfc9ce

Reporting entityMall Services Group LLC

Victim entityMall Services Group LLC

Incidentdiscovered Feb 1, 2022

Stated responseVendor identified and removed malware

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov