MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedFinancial accountPIILowActive

Huddle House, Inc.

bd_e97c3e992d96708e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 1, 2019

Filed

Feb 1, 2019

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Huddle House, Inc. →

Huddle House, Inc. notified customers of a malware intrusion affecting POS systems at corporate and franchise locations. Criminals compromised a third-party POS vendor to deploy malware. Payment card data (magnetic stripe info) was at risk for transactions between August 1, 2017, and January 2019. The company engaged forensic experts and law enforcement; investigation was ongoing.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 518 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Aug 1, 2017

Begins

Jan 1, 2019

Discovered

Feb 1, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

Name: Huddle House, Inc.
norm: huddle house

Name: Huddle House, Inc.
norm: huddle house
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 1, 2019
Breach occurred: Aug 1, 2017
Undetected for: 518 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 1, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Financial accountPII
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified by a law enforcement agency
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Engaged a leading IT investigation and security firm
Deployed specialized software to prevent further attacks
Deployed additional IT security measures
Worked with third-party forensic experts and federal law enforcement
Changes made: Commenced remediation procedures
Deployed additional IT security measures to reduce risk of further attacks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 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/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2019/HuddleHouse.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 1, 2019
Raw hash: 255f9f290facef93f7df807f19764a915f52436fc7d7cc78da1ab09649512fac

Reporting entityHuddle House, Inc.

Victim entityHuddle House, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 1, 2019

Stated responseEngaged a leading IT investigation and security firm

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov