MisuseRetail & ConsumerRetailPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumContained

Nordstrom Card Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 9, 2018

Filed

Nov 5, 2018

To disclose

27 days

Affected

7state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Nordstrom Card Services →2 incidents on file

Nordstrom Inc. notified Montana residents of a data breach involving employee data. A contract worker improperly handled employee information including SSNs, pay card numbers, and salary data on October 9, 2018. Nordstrom discovered the incident the same day, notified law enforcement, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 27 days

Oct 9, 2018

Begins

Oct 9, 2018

Discovered

Nov 5, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed7 affectedView incident

Name: Nordstrom Card Services
norm: nordstrom card
Domain: nordstromcard.com

Name: Nordstrom Card Services
norm: nordstrom card
Domain: nordstromcard.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 9, 2018
Breach occurred: Oct 9, 2018
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 5, 2018
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Began a comprehensive investigation
Contract worker no longer has access to systems
Offering free Identity Repair and Fraud Alerts with Credit Monitoring services for 24 months
Changes made: Putting additional measures in place to help prevent this from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Nordstrom.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 5, 2018
Raw hash: 08ef226124c20406b541dfd0a4256f200ee3a11bae133be15b8d1b44e1d6b6dc

Reporting entityNordstrom Card Services

Victim entityNordstrom Card Services

Incidentdiscovered Oct 9, 2018

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov