HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCapture Stored DataSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Sears Holdings Corporation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 26, 2018

Filed

Apr 24, 2018

To disclose

29 days

Affected

656state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Sears Holdings Corporation →3 incidents on file

Sears Holdings notified NH AG of a breach affecting 656 NH residents. A vendor's code was compromised with a malicious script collecting names, addresses, and payment card info from customers ordering between Sept 27 and Oct 12, 2017. Discovered March 26, 2018. Notifications sent April 25, 2018.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 180 days

discovery → filing · 29 days

Sep 27, 2017

Begins

Mar 26, 2018

Discovered

Apr 24, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_4127990c5317e1c82018-04-24Candidate
Montana State AGbd_e91e1c561709d7b72018-04-25 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_34500406ffb3c68c2018-05-17 · +23dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_6ccd597659c183d32018-05-18 · +24dVerified

Name: Sears Holdings Corporation
norm: sears holdings

Name: Sears Holdings Corporation
norm: sears holdings
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 26, 2018
Breach occurred: Sep 27, 2017 – Oct 12, 2017
Undetected for: 180 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 25, 2018
Affected individuals: 656state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1056 Input CaptureT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Department of Justice
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Conducted a thorough investigation of the incident
Notified the credit card companies of this incident
Sending notification letters to each affected individual
Cooperating with law enforcement authorities
Changes made: Vendor removed the script from its code
Vendor secured its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 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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Washington State AGApr 24 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 24 · first · this page

Montana State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+23d

South Carolina State AG+24d

Pattern: first filing Apr 24 (WA), last May 18 (SC) — a 24-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/sears-20180424.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 24, 2018
Raw hash: 2b161a811fbe4cfc4e028a9cf56ed6837de7cec701f31b64a3aae3c7e49d2de6

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySears Holdings Corporation

Victim entitySears Holdings Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Mar 26, 2018

Stated responseConducted a thorough investigation of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov