HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Five Below, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 28, 2018

Filed

Oct 8, 2018

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

13state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Five Below, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Five Below, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a security incident affecting 13 NH residents. Suspicious activity was observed on Aug 28, 2018, leading to the discovery of unauthorized access to payment card data (name, address, card number, CVV) for orders placed between Aug 14 and Sep 19, 2018. Notifications were mailed on Oct 5, 2018.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 14 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 41 days

Aug 14, 2018

Begins

Aug 28, 2018

Discovered

Oct 8, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_2b427935a51fbe9b2018-10-05 · +3dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_8a079fa7697776232018-10-05 · +3dVerified
Montana State AGbd_f089b12fecb700372018-10-05 · +3dCandidate

Name: Five Below, Inc.
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Name: Five Below, Inc.
norm: five below
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Aug 28, 2018
Breach occurred: Aug 14, 2018 – Sep 19, 2018
Undetected for: 14 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 5, 2018
Affected individuals: 13state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Began an investigation with the assistance of a leading computer security firm
Began mailing notification letters to 13 New Hampshire residents
Providing a telephone number for potentially affected individuals to call
Changes made: Enhanced the security measures for its website
Working with the payment card networks so that banks that issue payment cards can be made aware
Secured the services of Experian to offer you a complimentary one-year membership of Experian's IdentityWorks 5M
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(41 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGOct 5 · first

Massachusetts State AGOct 5 · first

Montana State AGOct 5 · first

New Hampshire State AG+3d · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/five-below-20181008.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 8, 2018
Raw hash: 31e0243fcbc19aac623256b33e3050dbfb0776aa84e51a64770ffef7cf292df5

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFive Below, Inc.

Victim entityFive Below, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 28, 2018

Stated responseBegan an investigation with the assistance of a leading computer security firm

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov