HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

VF Outdoor, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 9, 2020

Filed

Nov 5, 2020

To disclose

27 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

All records for VF Outdoor, LLC →4 incidents on file

Account takeover notice

VF Outdoor, LLC notified customers of unauthorized access to their accounts. The filing says: “Following a careful investigation, we concluded that a credential stuffing attack had been launched against our website on October 8 and 9, 2020.”

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California clockDiscovered Oct 9, 2020 → Notified Nov 5, 202027d ✓ CA 60-day OK27 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 27 days

Oct 8, 2020

Begins

Oct 9, 2020

Discovered

Nov 5, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

Oregon State AGbd_4b3f3642dc27ab492020-11-05Candidate
Delaware State AGbd_a095d154f34a4bcb2020-11-05Verified

Name: VF Outdoor, LLC
norm: vf outdoor
Domain: thenorthface.com

Name: VF Outdoor, LLC
norm: vf outdoor
Domain: thenorthface.com
Also named: VF Outdoor, LLCdba oflegal entity
The North Face®dba oftrade name
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 9, 2020
Account access: Oct 8, 2020 – Oct 9, 2020
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 5, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Implementing measures that limit account logins from sources that we believe are suspicious or in patterns that are suspicious
Disabled all passwords from accounts that were accessed during the timeframe of the attack
Erased all payment card tokens from all accounts on thenorthface.com
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 27d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Oct 9, 2020
→ Notified: Nov 5, 2020
27d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 9, 2020 → Notified: Nov 5, 2020	27d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Oregon State AGNov 5 · first

Delaware State AGNov 5 · first

California State AGNov 5 · first · this page

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-195859
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 5, 2020
Raw hash: 055c7f47b59e27fe8ba578e63a7a32c29cd669ff9c141eb39e03f4710bffea3f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVF Outdoor, LLC

Victim entityVF Outdoor, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Oct 9, 2020

Stated responseImplementing measures that limit account logins from sources that we believe are suspicious or in patterns that are suspicious

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov