MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareRansom DemandedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 9, 2021

Filed

Nov 2, 2021

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. →

G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a ransomware incident discovered on Sept 9, 2021. The attack disrupted systems and demanded ransom. Unauthorized access to employee PII (names, SSNs, DOBs) was possible. One NH resident affected. G&J engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, reimaged systems, and offers 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 54 days

Sep 9, 2021

Discovered

Nov 2, 2021

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_590fc87b761c07872021-11-03 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ac33249b8b8d52e82021-11-01 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_cbdbd0b50f82333a2021-11-01 · +1dCandidate

Name: TAFT STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP
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Name: G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc.
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Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 9, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 1, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1490 Inhibit System Recovery
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella

During the incident: Engaged a third-party forensic investigation firm to identify the scope of the Incident and to assist it with securing its systems and data
Brought its systems back online
Continues to closely monitor its network and information systems for unusual activity
Continuing its investigation and due diligence, including engaging additional resources and experts
Forced all employee passwords to be changed
Closed all administrator accounts and created new accounts with new passwords
Added an additional layer of endpoint protection on all company servers
Took offline approximately 100 computers and completely cleaned and re-imaged those computers
Implemented full-system backups on a 12/24 hour basis
Implemented other additional administrative safeguards
Changes made: Implementing recommendations from the third-party forensics firm to further assist G&J in developing its administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to further improve G&J security across the company
Offering one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(54 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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Massachusetts State AGNov 1 · first

Maine State AGNov 1 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · this page

Indiana State AG+2d

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Leak-site claim

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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/g-j-pepsi-cola-bottlers-20211102.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 2, 2021
Raw hash: 989cdabe5a0ccc9f628effd0fc123e0de10f60b3bdde374f05853e5fc9c7a259

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTAFT STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP

Victim entityG&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 9, 2021

Stated responseEngaged a third-party forensic investigation firm to identify the scope of the Incident and to assist it with securing its systems and data

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov