MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData EncryptedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighContained

PurFoods Holdings, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

Feb 22, 2023

Filed

Aug 25, 2023

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

43,819state residents only

Linked

13 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for PurFoods Holdings, LLC →

PurFoods, LLC notified South Carolina regulators of a cyberattack occurring between Jan 16 and Feb 22, 2023. The incident involved file encryption and potential data exfiltration. Affected data included names and potentially health insurance member IDs. The company engaged third-party specialists, notified federal law enforcement, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via Kroll.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due26 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 37 days

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 184 days

Jan 16, 2023

Begins

Feb 22, 2023

Discovered

Aug 25, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+19 wks slower

This filing is one of 13 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_2348d2b3c548f4132023-08-25Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_45869f2bc5c79a752023-08-25Verified
Maine State AGbd_5922a07dfc32ec372023-08-25Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_71f79a87b2334fa22023-08-25Verified

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Montana State AGbd_c2d1d182956f3f112023-08-25Verified
California State AGbd_d13fdb19999e965e2023-08-25Verified
Indiana State AGbd_deb31006ed70dde82023-08-25Verified
Vermont State AGbd_e470432f0b0b59282023-08-25Verified
Washington State AGbd_eaf838850645f5a22023-08-25Verified
Oregon State AGbd_b19ff7b969be846d2023-08-31 · +6dVerified

Showing first 10 of 12 linked disclosures.

Name: PurFoods Holdings, LLC
norm: purfoods holdings

Name: PurFoods Holdings, LLC
norm: purfoods holdings
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Feb 22, 2023
Breach occurred: Jan 16, 2023 – Feb 22, 2023
Undetected for: 37 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 25, 2023
Affected individuals: 43,819state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Federal law enforcement

During the incident: Launched an investigation with the help of third-party specialists
Notified Federal law enforcement of this event and cooperated with their subsequent investigation
Offered 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services provided through Kroll
Changes made: Taken a number of steps to further strengthen our network security
Reviewing our existing policies and procedures to identify additional measures and safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(184 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 11 states

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HHS OCRAug 25 · first

Massachusetts State AGAug 25 · first

Maine State AGAug 25 · first

New Hampshire State AGAug 25 · first

Montana State AGAug 25 · first

California State AGAug 25 · first

Indiana State AGAug 25 · first

Vermont State AGAug 25 · first

Washington State AGAug 25 · first

South Carolina State AGAug 25 · first · this page

Oregon State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Aug 25 (IA), last Aug 31 (OR) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 12 — the full spread may be wider.

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/PurFoodsLLC.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 25, 2023
Raw hash: 06d523dde66a82b98f1cc411ff20eb724b485fb74319eb27ffc5a1269dab572a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPurFoods Holdings, LLC

Victim entityPurFoods Holdings, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Feb 22, 2023

Stated responseLaunched an investigation with the help of third-party specialists

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov