F500 Retail & Grocery · Specialty Retailers: Other · Data breach
Advance Auto Parts
Headline
The 2024 Snowflake-linked breach places Advance Auto Parts inside one of the largest cloud-credential incidents on record - a campaign that reached numerous unrelated companies through customer accounts on a shared…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
The 2024 Snowflake-linked breach places Advance Auto Parts inside one of the largest cloud-credential incidents on record - a campaign that reached numerous unrelated companies through customer accounts on a shared data platform rather than through any one company's systems. Auto parts purchase history is also a vehicle profile: what you bought tells an inference engine the make, model, age and condition of your car, which feeds directly into the insurance and advertising markets documented in the Auto Apps and Insurance tabs.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected for retail customers, separate from this employee/applicant-focused settlement.
Data sharing
CONFIRMED 2024 SNOWFLAKE-LINKED BREACH: an attacker accessed Advance Auto Parts' Snowflake cloud database environment between April 14 and May 24, 2024 (per the company's breach notice as reported by Cybersecurity Dive), exposing personal information — including Social Security numbers — of approximately 2.3 MILLION current/former EMPLOYEES AND JOB APPLICANTS (not primarily retail customers). This was part of the SAME broader 2024 Snowflake cloud-platform breach wave that also affected Ticketmaster, Santander Bank, and 160+ other organizations (documented via the Cricket Wireless row, Retail & Fintech tab, and the Snowflake-related suits were consolidated as MDL No. 3126 in the District of Montana, In re: Snowflake, Inc. Data Security Breach Litigation; the Advance Auto Parts claims were litigated and settled within that MDL, whose court granted final approval of the settlement on Oct 23, 2025). Advance Auto Parts and parent Advance Stores Company agreed to a $10 MILLION settlement (final approval granted October 2025 after an Oct 23, 2025 hearing), offering up to $5,200 for documented losses, a ~$100 CCPA-specific payment for California residents, and 2 years of Kroll credit/identity monitoring; payments began in early February 2026.
Fees and billing
Not itemized this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
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| Privacy policy shop.advanceautoparts.com/privacy-policy | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service shop.advanceautoparts.com/terms-of-use | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.