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Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Driveline Retail Merchandising, Inc.

bd_51a76cc81321414e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 25, 2017

Filed

Feb 14, 2017

To disclose

20 days

Affected

30state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Driveline Retail Merchandising, Inc.

Driveline Retail Merchandising notified employees of a phishing incident on Jan 25, 2017, where an employee clicked a malicious link, resulting in the exfiltration of 2016 W-2s containing names, addresses, wages, and SSNs. Driveline engaged the FBI and IRS for investigation and provided 12 months of credit monitoring via AllClear ID.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 days

Jan 25, 2017

Begins

Jan 25, 2017

Discovered

Feb 14, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGFeb 14 · first
Massachusetts State AGFeb 14 · first
Montana State AGFeb 14 · 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.