DisclosureLens
HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)PCIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

Kayser-Roth, Inc.

bd_07a3d2a27cc5b7c6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 21, 2017

Filed

Oct 23, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected · nationwide

6,48819 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Kayser-Roth, Inc. →3 incidents on file
CorrectionPublished Sep 24, 2026

Correction: the Montana Department of Justice's breach register lists this filing with Start of Breach 10/23/2017, End of Breach 7/1/2017 and Date Reported 8/9/2017. The file linked from that entry holds two Kayser-Roth notification letters. The one to Hue.com customers says the breach lasted from July 1, 2017 until August 9, 2017; the one to Nononsense.com customers says from July 6, 2017 until August 9, 2017. Both say Kayser-Roth was told which customers were affected on September 21, 2017. 8/9/2017 is therefore the end of the breach, not the date the notice was reported. We publish 10/23/2017, the remaining date in the same register entry, as the date reported. The register's own text is unchanged.

Read their full statement

Kayser-Roth Corporation notified customers of a data breach involving its third-party e-commerce vendor, Aptos Inc. The breach, occurring between July 1 and August 9, 2017, compromised names, addresses, emails, and payment card data for approximately 6,488 customers. Aptos engaged forensic investigators and notified the FBI.

Incident timeline

undetected · 82 days
discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

Jul 1, 2017

Begins

Sep 21, 2017

Discovered

Oct 23, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of Aptos supply-chain incident (2017) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGOct 9 · first
Montana State AG+14d · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 9 (CA), last Oct 23 (MT) — a 14-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.