HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Victoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 13, 2021

Filed

May 13, 2021

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected · nationwide

1163 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

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Account takeover notice

Victoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, LLC notified customers of unauthorized access to their accounts. The filing says: “VS believes that the party capitalized on a breach of another company’s system where the customer may have used the same login information.”

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Maine clockDiscovered Apr 13, 2021 → Filed with AG May 13, 202130d ✓ ME AG ≤30d4 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Apr 13, 2021

Begins

Apr 13, 2021

Discovered

May 13, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_1e141584ed90f6a72021-05-13Verified
Indiana State AGbd_dfbf31a1e6691c672021-05-13Verified

Name: Victoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, LLC
norm: victoria s secret stores brand management

Name: Victoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, LLC
norm: victoria s secret stores brand management
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Apr 13, 2021
Account access: Apr 13, 2021 – Apr 14, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 13, 2021
Affected individuals: 116state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took steps to secure the accounts.
Asked affected customers to change their current password and create a new one for their VS online account.
Addressing gift card balance validation with its customers.
Changes made: Arranged to provide potentially affected customers with free identity protection service through Experian for one year.
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: ME AG ≤30d · 30d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
Maine
Discovered: Apr 13, 2021
→ Filed with AG: May 13, 2021
30d 30 days ME AG ≤30d

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
Maine	Discovered: Apr 13, 2021 → Filed with AG: May 13, 2021	30d	30 days	ME AG ≤30d

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

Massachusetts State AGMay 13 · first

Indiana State AGMay 13 · first

Maine State AGMay 13 · 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.

Source URL: https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/d3ed26ee-726d-460a-b0e4-41d661a7da0f.shtml
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 13, 2021
Raw hash: ec814d4f14b34dba4af5a04bc76be6a213c26eae652f121eea64d4fe1f2dba42

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVictoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, LLC

Victim entityVictoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 13, 2021

Stated responseTook steps to secure the accounts.

ComplianceME AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.maine.gov