Advance Auto Parts security incident

Stolen credentials were used against a Snowflake customer account that did not enforce MFA. Employee and customer data exposed.

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Summary

  • Environment: Retail
  • Operational impact: Employee and customer data exposed
  • Financial impact: No financial figure is established by the reviewed source evidence
  • Record status: Developing record. Reviewed September 19, 2026; updated as evidence emerges.

What happened

In 2024, Advance Auto Parts experienced an incident in its retail environment. The retained source describes the attack path as follows: Stolen credentials were used against a Snowflake customer account that did not enforce MFA. [1]

The documented consequence was: Employee and customer data exposed. [1]

Impact

  • Documented impact: Employee and customer data exposed. [1]
  • No financial loss, ransom amount, recovery cost, or regulatory penalty is established by the reviewed source evidence.

Threat Group & Attack Vector

The retained source describes the attack path as follows: Stolen credentials were used against a Snowflake customer account that did not enforce MFA. The canonical record does not add intrusion steps beyond those supported by the source. [1]

Actors

  • No threat actor group has been identified in the reviewed public evidence.

TTPs

Response

The reviewed source does not describe containment, notification, or restoration steps in enough detail to summarize them responsibly.

This account is bounded to Snowflake data security breach litigation. Details absent from that evidence are left unresolved rather than inferred. [1]