HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

Cardi's Department Store Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 30, 2024

Filed

Mar 10, 2025

To disclose

23 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Cardi's Department Store Inc. →

Cardi’s Department Store Inc. notified the Maryland Attorney General of a data event affecting approximately 5 Maryland residents. Unauthorized access to personal information, including SSNs, driver's license numbers, and medical/insurance data, was identified following suspicious network activity detected on September 30, 2024. The company engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d23 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 23 weeks / 161 days

Sep 30, 2024

Discovered

Mar 10, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+15 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_0795cc7ece3869952025-03-10Verified
Maine State AGbd_0e998d124b266f622025-03-10Candidate
Montana State AGbd_fad6ad35d0799f0b2025-03-10Verified by operator
Massachusetts State AGbd_618f9e3b20b147002025-03-11 · +1dVerified

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Rhode Island State AGbd_94e800dec1e49f122025-03-11 · +1dVerified

Name: Cardi's Department Store Inc.
norm: cardi s department store

Name: Cardi's Department Store Inc.
norm: cardi s department store
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 30, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 10, 2025
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Medical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcementProvided written notice to relevant state and federal regulatorsNotified the three major credit reporting agencies

During the incident: Engaged digital forensics specialists to assist with the investigation
Secured its network
Conducted a comprehensive review of the potentially affected data
Notified federal law enforcement regarding the event
Implemented additional safeguards and training
Provided access to credit monitoring services for twelve (12) months through IDX
Provided impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Provided written notice to relevant state and federal regulators
Notified the three major credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 23 weeks(161 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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New Hampshire State AGMar 10 · first

Maine State AGMar 10 · first

Montana State AGMar 10 · first

Maryland State AGMar 10 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Rhode Island State AG+1d

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.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376523.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 10, 2025
Raw hash: 5079891ee2a334bf4b9442d9b7e0d6afb5fc7d246a5f4b84974e263ae2e394d5

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCardi's Department Store Inc.

Victim entityCardi's Department Store Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 30, 2024

Stated responseEngaged digital forensics specialists to assist with the investigation

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov