AccidentalManufacturingManufacturingLossData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

YKK AP AMERICA INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 9, 2025

Filed

Jul 2, 2026

To disclose

29 weeks

Affected

50state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for YKK AP AMERICA INC. →

YKK AP America Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General that a third-party records management vendor lost custody of six electronic backup tapes containing personal information of 50 NH residents. The incident involved the loss of physical media (tapes) during transportation/storage, not a cyber intrusion. Data potentially exposed included names, SSNs, and bank/routing numbers. YKK AP is notifying affected individuals and offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 22 days

discovery → filing · 29 weeks / 205 days

Nov 17, 2025

Begins

Dec 9, 2025

Discovered

Jul 2, 2026

Filed

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_b098d9c08ea40d0c2026-07-02Verified
Texas State AGbd_214351946b4e30a22026-07-07 · +5dVerified

Name: YKK AP AMERICA INC.
norm: ykk ap america

Name: YKK AP AMERICA INC.
norm: ykk ap america
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Dec 9, 2025
Breach occurred: Nov 17, 2025 – Dec 9, 2025
Undetected for: 22 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 2, 2026
Affected individuals: 50state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Partner

During the incident: Completed a comprehensive review of the files that may have been contained on the backup tapes
Began providing written notice via U.S. Mail to fifty (50) residents of your State
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services
Changes made: Reassessing how we securely back up our IT systems
Strengthening the safeguards around any system copies that must be physically transferred to storage
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 weeks(205 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Indiana State AGJul 2 · first

New Hampshire State AGJul 2 · first · this page

Texas State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jul 2 (IN), last Jul 7 (TX) — a 5-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/ykk-ap-america-20260702.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 2, 2026
Raw hash: 7d25203be2691886d3925a46c573bae90d5511e8cb767ec05eae256a1b95d0db

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityYKK AP AMERICA INC.

Victim entityYKK AP AMERICA INC.

Incidentdiscovered Dec 9, 2025

Stated responseCompleted a comprehensive review of the files that may have been contained on the backup tapes

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov