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Vermont Nut Free Chocolates

bd_142a019cb307a98d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 29, 2022

Filed

Aug 31, 2022

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

54state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Vermont Nut Free Chocolates →

Vermont Nut Free Chocolates notified customers that a third-party payment processor, Freestyle Solutions, experienced a malware incident. Unauthorized parties may have acquired payment card information from purchases made between Sept 18, 2020 and Feb 3, 2022. The incident was discovered on July 29, 2022. Notices were sent on Aug 29, 2022. 236 Rhode Island residents were impacted.

Incident timeline

undetected · 679 days
discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Jul 29, 2022

Discovered

Aug 31, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of FreeStyle Solutions supply-chain incident (2022) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 6d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Aug 29 (IN), last Sep 6 (NH) — a 8-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.