HackingTransportation & LogisticsTransportationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Alaska Airlines

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 19, 2018

Filed

May 3, 2018

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1,442state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Alaska Airlines →2 incidents on file

Alaska Airlines reported a third-party data breach involving its legacy Orbitz platform. Unauthorized access occurred between Oct 1, 2017, and Dec 22, 2017. Alaska was notified by Orbitz on March 19, 2018. Data accessed included names, DOBs, contact info, and credit card details for reservations made in 2016. 1,442 Washington residents were affected. Alaska offered credit monitoring and identity theft repair.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 169 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 45 days

Oct 1, 2017

Begins

Mar 19, 2018

Discovered

May 3, 2018

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Orbitz Worldwide, LLC supply-chain incident (2018) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_0bfcc8300dd560512018-05-03Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_124bfe05d1b635122018-05-04 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_71acbbe5f78078ad2018-05-04 · +1dCandidate

Name: Alaska Airlines
norm: alaska airlines
Domain: alaskaair.com

Name: Alaska Airlines
norm: alaska airlines
Domain: alaskaair.com
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Mar 19, 2018
Breach occurred: Oct 1, 2017 – Dec 22, 2017
Undetected for: 169 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 4, 2018
Affected individuals: 1,442state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Date of birthFinancial account numberName
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 100-199dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed notice with Washington Attorney General
Third party: via Orbitz
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Working to understand the impact
In regular communication with Orbitz
Offering identity theft repair services
Offering 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and fraud alerts
Changes made: Orbitz is working to improve security on the platform
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(45 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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New Hampshire State AGMay 3 · first

Washington State AGMay 3 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+1d

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM9569.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 3, 2018
Raw hash: c30e6332cfff641ca24aaeb8bcc5e9bc658b573451c7e019d26fb3633668903e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAlaska Airlines

Victim entityAlaska Airlines

Incidentdiscovered Mar 19, 2018

Stated responseWorking to understand the impact

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com