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HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Bristol Farms

bd_08ca3b9c55dbf7ce · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Apr 11, 2016

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Bristol Farms

Bristol Farms, Inc. disclosed that on March 30, 2016, an unauthorized individual impersonating a Bristol Farms/Lazy Acres executive contacted the company requesting employee information. An electronic file containing employee names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and compensation/deduction data was provided. The company determined the request was fraudulent. No customer, vendor, or bank account data was impacted. The company engaged law enforcement and offered two years of identity protection to affected employees.

Incident timeline

Mar 30, 2016

Begins

Apr 11, 2016

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

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.