HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsHighContained

ROMWE

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Severity

High

Discovered

Sep 7, 2020

Filed

Dec 30, 2020

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

102,148state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for ROMWE →

ROMWE notified customers that usernames and passwords were stolen from its network in July 2018 and appeared on the dark web in September 2020. The breach exposed names, emails, and phone numbers. ROMWE forced password resets and offered 12 months of identity theft protection services. The incident affects customers across multiple US states.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due16 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.

Incident timeline

undetected · 799 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 114 days

Jul 1, 2018

Begins

Sep 7, 2020

Discovered

Dec 30, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Delaware State AGbd_b53034c3920d7e412020-12-30Verified

Name: ROMWE
norm: romwe
Domain: romwe.com

Name: ROMWE
norm: romwe
Domain: romwe.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 7, 2020
Breach occurred: Jul 1, 2018 – Jul 31, 2018
Undetected for: 799 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 7, 2020
Affected individuals: 102,148state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Retained a cyber security company and conducted an investigation
Forced password resets for all potentially affected customers
Offering to potentially affected customers identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Increasing password encryption
Using more advanced intrusion detection technologies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(114 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Delaware State AGDec 30 · first

South Carolina State AGDec 30 · first · this page

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2020/Romwe.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 30, 2020
Raw hash: a5a6d0510ab06dc24b50644b2e97c559cb9db28b5b75453c431bd679a0b75f2f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityROMWE

Victim entityROMWE

Incidentdiscovered Sep 7, 2020

Stated responseRetained a cyber security company and conducted an investigation

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov