MalwareHospitalityHospitalityRansomwareData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Key Ambassador Resort Inn

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 13, 2018

Filed

Apr 4, 2019

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

95state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Key West Hotels, LLC notified guests of the Key Ambassador Resort Inn that malware compromised the front desk system from Feb 7 to Dec 13, 2018. Guest names, addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card data were viewed. The hotel retained a cybersecurity firm, removed malware, and notified federal law enforcement.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 309 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 112 days

Feb 7, 2018

Begins

Dec 13, 2018

Discovered

Apr 4, 2019

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_7f9358ec64a849fb2019-04-05 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_97e680ad0afaa3f52019-04-02 · +2dVerified
California State AGbd_ccc0148a8a68acdf2019-04-02 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ea0e9b0f09e4391c2019-04-02 · +2dVerified

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Montana State AGbd_c2b01d0a2565638b2019-02-02 · +61dCandidate

Name: Key West Hotels, LLC
norm: key west hotels

Name: Key Ambassador Resort Inn
norm: key ambassador resort inn
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: Dec 13, 2018
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2018 – Dec 13, 2018
Undetected for: 309 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 95state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcement officials

During the incident: Retained a well-known global cyber security firm to perform an assessment of the computer system
Removed malware
Restored the system so that it could be used safely
Conducted an investigation by a forensic technology expert
Implemented improvements and technical safeguards to system security
Notified federal law enforcement officials
Changes made: Improvements and technical safeguards to system security have been implemented
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(112 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Montana State AGFeb 2 · first

Oregon State AG+59d

California State AG+59d

Massachusetts State AG+59d

South Carolina State AG+61d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+62d

Pattern: first filing Feb 2 (MT), last Apr 5 (NH) — a 62-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/KeyAmbassadorResortInn.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 4, 2019
Raw hash: 1298ffc3521d2701a6c271a636ea15e6e2611b84567d1f778fb647763a039ffc

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKey West Hotels, LLC

Victim entityKey Ambassador Resort Inn

Incidentdiscovered Dec 13, 2018

Stated responseRetained a well-known global cyber security firm to perform an assessment of the computer system

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov