HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPIIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Welders Supply

bd_5dad1d2314069c02 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 3, 2018

Filed

Jan 9, 2019

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

8state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Welders Supply →2 incidents on file

Welders Supply Company notified Montana residents of a data incident involving its third-party hosting provider, iNET. Between Nov 14 and Dec 6, 2018, an unauthorized party accessed customer data entered on the checkout page, including credit card numbers and CVVs. iNET disabled the vulnerability and engaged monitoring. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 19 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 37 days

Nov 14, 2018

Begins

Dec 3, 2018

Discovered

Jan 9, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_53607d9da0fea99a2019-01-10 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_50b87a419c6122e22019-01-16 · +7dVerified

Name: Welders Supply
norm: welders supply
Domain: weldersupply.com

Name: Welders Supply
norm: welders supply
Domain: weldersupply.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Dec 3, 2018
Breach occurred: Nov 14, 2018 – Dec 6, 2018
Undetected for: 19 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 18, 2018
Affected individuals: 8state-resident count only
Data types: PIIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Third party: via iNET Company
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Notified iNET of the calls
INET disabled the vulnerability
INET assigned a programmer to monitor Welders Supply’s website with security analysis software
Scheduled software to be in a “monitor only” mode
Notified credit card payment processor
Changes made: INET remediated the vulnerability
Continuously evaluating processes to improve security and safe handling of information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(37 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGJan 9 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Jan 9 (MT), last Jan 16 (MA) — a 7-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Welders-Supply.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 9, 2019
Raw hash: da734c1bb08c842d27316ae2d783300e31f9f22e33f6b8bc2c638b53e61bd766

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWelders Supply

Victim entityWelders Supply

Incidentdiscovered Dec 3, 2018

Stated responseNotified iNET of the calls

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov