HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPCIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Clif Family Winery

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 27, 2015

Filed

Jun 10, 2015

To disclose

14 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

63%

Full breach record for Clif Family Winery →

Clif Bar Family Winery & Farm, LLC notified customers that its third-party ecommerce provider, Missing Link Networks, Inc. (MLN), experienced a data security incident. The intruder potentially accessed payment card transaction data for transactions occurring between April 1 and April 30, 2015. Affected data may include name, payment card number, related payment address, and date of birth. MLN identified and fixed the breach vectors and notified law enforcement and card networks. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed in the notice.

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California clockDiscovered May 27, 2015 → Notified Jun 10, 201514d ✓ CA 60-day OK14 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 56 days

discovery → filing · 14 days

Apr 1, 2015

Begins

May 27, 2015

Discovered

Jun 10, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_518abb3fef1454632015-06-12 · +2dVerified

Name: Clif Bar
norm: clif bar
Domain: clifbar.com

Name: Clif Family Winery
norm: clif family winery
Domain: cliffamily.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: PCIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Missing Link Networks, Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: MLN has indicated that they have identified and fixed all means that were used to breach their systems
MLN has taken steps to prevent this type of event from occurring in the future
MLN is working with law enforcement
MLN has notified American Express, MasterCard and Visa
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGJun 10 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+2d

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/sb24-56310
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 10, 2015
Raw hash: a0d6f2b78bade1bd44b0103b14bc0ea141af0d41957394a2e5e450957a0d1874

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityClif Bar

Victim entityClif Family Winery

Incidentdiscovered May 27, 2015

Stated responseMLN has indicated that they have identified and fixed all means that were used to breach their systems

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov