DisclosureLens
AccidentalRetail & ConsumerRetailMisconfigurationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 19, 2014

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

63%
Full breach record for Lowe's Companies, Inc.3 incidents on file

Lowe's Companies, Inc. notified the California Attorney General that a third-party vendor (E-DriverFile) unintentionally backed up personal information to an unsecured server accessible from the Internet. The data, which included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers for current and former drivers and employees, may have been accessed between July 2013 and April 2014. The vendor blocked access to the server and retained security experts. Lowe's is offering one year of credit protection services.

Incident timeline

Jul 1, 2013

Begins

May 19, 2014

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGMay 19 · first
California State AGMay 19 · 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.