MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailInfostealerSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 2, 2022

Filed

Aug 19, 2022

To disclose

17 days

Affected

1,639state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC. →3 incidents on file

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. notified the NH AG of a data breach affecting ~1,639 NH residents. Third-party vendor Freestyle Solutions experienced malware on its server hosting ShopRuger.com from Sept 2020 to Feb 2022. Malware captured checkout data including names, addresses, and full payment card details. Ruger engaged Verizon for investigation, notified law enforcement, and offered 12 months of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 683 days

discovery → filing · 17 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Aug 2, 2022

Discovered

Aug 19, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 9 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 (8) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2756ba599a1cd56c2022-08-18 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_4fae1ff48d4333632022-08-18 · +1dVerified
Washington State AGbd_ab208d75cc9435ea2022-08-18 · +1dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_1f4061fbb0cfdce22022-08-17 · +2dVerified

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 17d gap

California State AGbd_38f04b97485bb4182022-08-17 · +2dCandidate
Maine State AGbd_9393cab4cdd552b62022-08-17 · +2dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_ebaf2f767137b90a2022-08-17 · +2dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_33d8926df2b3726e2022-08-02 · +17dVerified

Name: Day Pitney LLP
norm: day pitney

Name: STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC.
norm: sturm ruger
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Aug 2, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 18, 2020 – Feb 3, 2022
Undetected for: 683 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 18, 2022
Affected individuals: 1,639state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1056 Input Capture
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via Freestyle Solutions

During the incident: Engaged Verizon to conduct an investigation and advise on further containment and remediation activities
Notified federal law enforcement authorities
Coordinating with payment card companies
Notifying all affected customers by first class U.S. mail
Offering 12 months of identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Removing malware from the server
Blocking known malicious users
Changing administrative passwords
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 8 states

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Delaware State AGAug 2 · first

Delaware State AG+15d

California State AG+15d

Maine State AG+15d

Oregon State AG+15d

Massachusetts State AG+16d

Indiana State AG+16d

Washington State AG+16d

New Hampshire State AG+17d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 2 (DE), last Aug 19 (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/sturm-ruger-20220819.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 19, 2022
Raw hash: 4f97b117bafe20706cf3efa69518707e34e520a703c5c01b65c719e35d879593

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDay Pitney LLP

Victim entitySTURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 2, 2022

Stated responseEngaged Verizon to conduct an investigation and advise on further containment and remediation activities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov