MalwareHospitalityHospitalityInfostealerCustomer Data InvolvedPCIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Evans Hotels

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 1, 2015

Filed

Jul 8, 2015

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Evans Hotels →2 incidents on file

Evans Hotels experienced a payment card data breach involving malware installed on front-desk computers that captured data from backup card readers used for large group check-ins. The incident occurred between September 2014 and March 5, 2015, when the backup readers were removed. Affected data included cardholder name, account number, expiration date, and verification code. Evans Hotels engaged a security firm, removed the vulnerable readers, and implemented enhanced security measures.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 153 days

discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 157 days

Sep 1, 2014

Begins

Feb 1, 2015

Discovered

Jul 8, 2015

Filed

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

Name: Evans Hotels
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Name: Evans Hotels
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Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: Feb 1, 2015
Breach occurred: Sep 1, 2014 – Mar 5, 2015
Undetected for: 153 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PCIFinancial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1056 Input Capture
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Engaged a leading computer security firm to examine our payment system
Immediately removed the backup readers from all of its properties on March 5, 2015
Working with the computer security firm to implement additional enhanced security measures
Working with the credit card companies and processors to provide them with our findings
Changes made: Implement additional enhanced security measures to prevent this from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 weeks(157 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-56969
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 8, 2015
Raw hash: ea8884440c74afe49f13369853fa01d459170066b22d87241eb7e38455df4115

Reporting entityEvans Hotels

Victim entityEvans Hotels

Incidentdiscovered Feb 1, 2015

Stated responseEngaged a leading computer security firm to examine our payment system

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov