HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitTargetedFinancial accountPIILowActive

Cajun Operating Company

bd_f2ecb3a37f1f31f9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 21, 2019

Filed

Nov 25, 2019

To disclose

4 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

67%

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Cajun Operating Company d/b/a Church's Chicken announced an investigation into a potential data incident involving credit and debit card payment systems at company-owned restaurants in the U.S. The company retained a cybersecurity firm and is cooperating with federal law enforcement.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 days

Nov 21, 2019

Discovered

Nov 25, 2019

Filed

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8 wks faster

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

Name: Cajun Operating Company
norm: cajun operating
Domain: churchs.com

Name: Cajun Operating Company
norm: cajun operating
Domain: churchs.com
Also named: Cajun Operating Companydba oflegal entity
Church’s Chickendba oftrade name
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Nov 21, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Financial accountPII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified payment card networksNotified credit reporting agencies
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Retained a leading cybersecurity firm to help us determine exactly what happened
Cooperating with Federal law enforcement
Notified the payment card networks and credit reporting agencies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 days(4 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/ChurchsChicken.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 25, 2019
Raw hash: 65f2e4cee83df4bb987cb5c3ebcd84acda60acd2f6e260d692594f8d8a373083

Reporting entityCajun Operating Company

Victim entityCajun Operating Company

Incidentdiscovered Nov 21, 2019

Stated responseRetained a leading cybersecurity firm to help us determine exactly what happened

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov