DisclosureLens
HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsHighContained

VF Outdoor, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

Aug 11, 2022

Filed

Sep 5, 2022

To disclose

25 days

Affected

194,905

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%
All records for VF Outdoor, LLC →4 incidents on file

Account takeover notice

VF Outdoor, LLC notified customers of unauthorized access to their accounts. The filing says: “Following a careful investigation, we concluded that attackers launched a credential stuffing attack against our website, thenorthface.com, between July 26 and August 19, 2022.”

VF Outdoor, LLC (doing business as The North Face and Vans) disclosed a credential stuffing attack against its e-commerce websites. Attackers used stolen credentials to access user accounts between July 26 and August 20, 2022. The incident affected approximately 194,905 individuals in the US, exposing email addresses, passwords, names, addresses, and purchase history. Payment card data was not compromised. The company disabled affected passwords and erased payment tokens.

California clockDiscovered Aug 11, 2022 → Notified Sep 1, 202221d ✓ CA 60-day OK25 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 16 days
discovery → filing · 25 days

Jul 26, 2022

Begins

Aug 11, 2022

Discovered

Sep 5, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGSep 5 · 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.