MisuseRetail & ConsumerRetailData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmploymentMediumContained

NORDSTROM, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 9, 2018

Filed

Nov 6, 2018

To disclose

28 days

Affected

43state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for NORDSTROM, INC. →7 incidents on file

Nordstrom, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General that a contract worker improperly handled employee data on October 9, 2018. Affected data included names, SSNs, pay card numbers, bank account details, and salary info for approximately 43 New Hampshire residents. No customer data was impacted. Nordstrom engaged law enforcement, removed the worker's access, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 28 days

Oct 9, 2018

Begins

Oct 9, 2018

Discovered

Nov 6, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

California State AGbd_692931f2eb247e132018-11-05 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_91218bdcbbb8241a2018-11-05 · +1dCandidate
Washington State AGbd_c53d4842eee280732018-11-05 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_d7f11da71dbc8c232018-11-05 · +1dVerified

Name: NORDSTROM, INC.
norm: nordstrom

Name: NORDSTROM, INC.
norm: nordstrom
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: 43state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Third party: via Contract worker
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Investigated the nature and scope of the incident
Notified law enforcement
Removed access for the contract worker
Providing affected individuals with 24 months of identity protection and credit monitoring services at no cost
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: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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California State AGNov 5 · first

Oregon State AGNov 5 · first

Washington State AGNov 5 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 5 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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/nordstrom-20181106.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 6, 2018
Raw hash: f426017ec30384822b8f3defe4d86c8a433aec6f851480cb00daf4d07094c45f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNORDSTROM, INC.

Victim entityNORDSTROM, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 9, 2018

Stated responseInvestigated the nature and scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov