HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 10, 2015

Filed

Apr 15, 2015

To disclose

5 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. →

Abercrombie & Fitch notified NH AG of a security incident where an unauthorized individual used stolen employee credentials to access a self-help HR portal. The actor changed email and direct deposit info to divert funds. Incident occurred late March 2015, discovered April 10, 2015. FBI notified. 1 NH employee affected.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 16 days

discovery → filing · 5 days

Mar 25, 2015

Begins

Apr 10, 2015

Discovered

Apr 15, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_671db9534a2e082d2015-04-22 · +7dVerified

Name: ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO.
norm: abercrombie fitch
Domain: abc-fitch.com
Industry: Retail

Name: ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO.
norm: abercrombie fitch
Domain: abc-fitch.com
Industry: Retail
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Apr 10, 2015
Breach occurred: Mar 25, 2015
Undetected for: 16 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 15, 2015
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Notified the FBI of the attempted theft
Took immediate steps to isolate this incident
Corrected payroll deposit information
Locked login account
Changes made: Providing one year of monitoring, at no cost to you, from All Clear ID
Required employees to change password
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGApr 15 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Apr 15 (NH), last Apr 22 (MA) — a 7-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/abercrombie-fitch-20150415.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 15, 2015
Raw hash: e985a393c5b146aad1b3b84f220f7457646ca13327777d8f75e0b72468bca928

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO.

Victim entityABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 10, 2015

Stated responseNotified the FBI of the attempted theft

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov