AccidentalManufacturingManufacturingMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Gore

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 27, 2022

Filed

Feb 28, 2022

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Gore →

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. notified the NH AG that its vendor, Professional Duplicating, inadvertently mailed 2020 W-2 forms to former employees' old addresses on Jan 25, 2022. Gore discovered the error on Jan 27, 2022. 2 NH residents were affected. Data included names, addresses, SSNs, and wages. No evidence of inappropriate access. Gore offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

Jan 25, 2022

Begins

Jan 27, 2022

Discovered

Feb 28, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: Gore
norm: gore
Domain: gore.com

Name: Gore
norm: gore
Domain: gore.com
Industry: Manufacturingllm

Discovered: Jan 27, 2022
Breach occurred: Jan 25, 2022
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 25, 2022
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified State of New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Notified its employees on January 28th
Sending notice to impacted employees
Making an offer of one year of credit monitoring to the affected individuals
Changes made: Offering a complimentary one-year membership to Experian IdentityWorks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(32 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/wl-gore-20220228.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2022
Raw hash: 3a3cb199be4bf0989c79e20f0d217fe36d0aefcf7439079300d3f01096af62d2

Reporting entityGore

Victim entityGore

Incidentdiscovered Jan 27, 2022

Stated responseNotified its employees on January 28th

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov