HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitCapture Stored DataData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountPIILowContained

Essential Wholesale & Labs

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 22, 2022

Filed

Feb 22, 2023

To disclose

39 weeks

Affected

6state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Essential Wholesale & Labs →

Essential Wholesale & Labs notified customers of a data breach where unauthorized code on its website scraped checkout data (names, addresses, payment info, emails) from April-November 2022. Discovered May 2022. Notified law enforcement and engaged forensic investigators.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 25 days

discovery → filing · 39 weeks / 276 days

Apr 27, 2022

Begins

May 22, 2022

Discovered

Feb 22, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+32 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

Vermont State AGbd_3f1b6cf4c03fbe482023-02-22Candidate

Name: Essential Wholesale & Labs
norm: essential wholesale labs

Name: Essential Wholesale & Labs
norm: essential wholesale labs
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: May 22, 2022
Breach occurred: Apr 27, 2022 – Nov 5, 2022
Undetected for: 25 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 16, 2023
Affected individuals: 6state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountPII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notified law enforcement
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation
Engaged an external third-party forensic firm to investigate the incident
Notified law enforcement
Working with credit card brands to address the issue
Engaged a separate third party to review our website for vulnerabilities
Updated our website’s infrastructure to reduce the likelihood of this type of incident occurring in the future
Changes made: Updated our website’s infrastructure to reduce the likelihood of this type of incident occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 39 weeks(276 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Vermont State AGFeb 22 · first

Montana State AGFeb 22 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-91.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 22, 2023
Raw hash: 2357d1acfa6e1db1cc5f29f439a56755b630ddc450934f84e9d067cca0af3588

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEssential Wholesale & Labs

Victim entityEssential Wholesale & Labs

Incidentdiscovered May 22, 2022

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov