HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

The Hartz Mountain Corporation

bd_301e1931beae872b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 7, 2024

Filed

Oct 18, 2024

To disclose

32 weeks

Affected

6state residents only

Linked

6 records

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Hartz Mountain Corporation →

Hartz Mountain Corporation notified New Hampshire residents of unauthorized access to its computer system observed on March 7, 2024. The investigation confirmed that some personal information was present in the accessible dataset. The company implemented additional technical safeguards, provided employee training, and notified regulators and credit reporting agencies.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d32 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 32 weeks / 225 days

Mar 7, 2024

Discovered

Oct 7, 2024

Scope determined

Oct 18, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+23 wks slower

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

A leak claim by play about this victim was first seen 205 days before this filing.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Siteplaybd_9e066c177e21348a2024-03-07 · +225dVerified

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_009ebf5999848b6c2024-10-18Verified
Indiana State AGbd_3323b24c4b4be3542024-10-18Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_fcbb8c03953447622024-10-18Verified
Illinois State AGbd_66fae1c9e75426ea2024-10-01 · +17dCandidate

Name: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
norm: the hartz mountain
Domain: hartz.com

Name: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
norm: the hartz mountain
Domain: hartz.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 7, 2024
Materiality determined: Oct 7, 2024
Notification sent: Oct 18, 2024
Affected individuals: 6state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Provided written notice of this event to relevant regulators

During the incident: Investigated the nature and scope of the activity
Assessed the security of Hartz systems
Identified potentially affected individuals
Undertook a comprehensive review of the accessible dataset
Providing impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Providing individuals with information on how to place fraud alerts and credit freezes on their credit files
Providing written notice of this event to relevant regulators
Providing written notice of this event to the three major credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion
Changes made: Implement additional appropriate safeguards
Provide necessary training to its employees
Implemented additional technical safeguards to help prevent a similar event in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 32 weeks(225 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >180d
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 · 5 filings · 5 states

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Illinois State AGOct 1 · first

Maine State AG+17d

Indiana State AG+17d

Massachusetts State AG+17d

New Hampshire State AG+17d · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 1 (IL), last Oct 18 (NH) — a 17-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/hartz-mountain-20241018.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 18, 2024
Raw hash: dd2c4d5584ed8ffe24d8dd4fae37fd0d1caaa7c3de39b4e6dda0e9e21dfc9eec

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Hartz Mountain Corporation

Victim entityThe Hartz Mountain Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Mar 7, 2024

Stated responseInvestigated the nature and scope of the activity

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov