AccidentalRetail & ConsumerRetailMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumResolved

C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 1, 2025

Filed

Feb 25, 2025

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC. →2 incidents on file

C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC accidentally mailed W-2 tax forms to incorrect individuals due to a misapplied mail merge functionality in its human capital management system during January 2025. The incident affected one Maryland resident (employee/former employee). The W-2s contained name, address, Social Security number, and tax financial information. The company implemented process safeguards and offered 12 months of identity protection services via IDX.

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Maryland clock⏱ MD AG >30d8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 55 days

Jan 1, 2025

Begins

Jan 1, 2025

Discovered

Feb 25, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_3263cf801fe45b162025-02-26 · +1dCandidate
Vermont State AGbd_5d71b82c4e536d5f2025-02-26 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_603041aab654e3f82025-02-26 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_92f39c7f711f24cc2025-02-26 · +1dVerified

Name: C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC.
norm: c s wholesale grocers

Name: C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC.
norm: c s wholesale grocers
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 1, 2025
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2025 – Jan 31, 2025
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 26, 2025
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Regulator citations: Notifying the relevant regulators of the error

During the incident: Implemented safeguards in its processes to prevent this error from reoccurring
Notified the unintended recipients of the W-2 forms of the error
Offering identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Implemented safeguards in its processes to prevent this error from reoccurring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Maryland State AGFeb 25 · first · this page

Maine State AG+1d

Vermont State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+1d

Massachusetts 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-376412.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 25, 2025
Raw hash: 6c10eb0e0711e36af71aa00553826e6a0ee3ac177093272472142b671c3f45b9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityC&S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC.

Victim entityC&S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 1, 2025

Stated responseImplemented safeguards in its processes to prevent this error from reoccurring

ComplianceMD AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov