MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData ExfiltratedTargetedPCIFinancial accountLowContained

Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc.

bd_d1980171bd36ca22 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 12, 2017

Filed

Mar 13, 2017

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. →

Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. notified customers of a payment card security incident involving malware on POS systems at certain U.S. restaurants. The malware potentially accessed card data (magnetic stripe info) between October 20, 2016, and January 12, 2017. The company notified law enforcement, investigated, and contained the malware. No specific count of affected individuals was provided in this notice.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 84 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 60 days

Oct 20, 2016

Begins

Jan 12, 2017

Discovered

Mar 13, 2017

Filed

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

Name: Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc.
norm: arby s restaurant
Domain: arbys.com

Name: Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc.
norm: arby s restaurant
Domain: arbys.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 12, 2017
Breach occurred: Oct 20, 2016 – Jan 12, 2017
Undetected for: 84 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 10, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PCIFinancial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Commenced a thorough investigation
Took measures to contain and eradicate malware
Working closely with payment card companies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/Arbys%20Restaurant%20Group%2C%20Inc.%2013%20Mar%2017%20-%20Consumer%20Notice.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 13, 2017
Raw hash: 9c751212bb82e7a50167f0e88621a326f76c0b86f3e1ce06ee403593229f9d16

Reporting entityArby's Restaurant Group, Inc.

Victim entityArby's Restaurant Group, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 12, 2017

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov