HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedFinancial accountCredentialsLowResolved

Sam's Club

bd_64d5d6cea3603f75 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 10, 2020

Filed

Dec 10, 2020

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected · nationwide

4182 in this filing

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Sam's Club →2 incidents on file

Sam's Club experienced an account takeover incident via credential stuffing, where an unauthorized third party gained access to customer accounts. The breach resulted in the exposure of financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers, along with their security codes or PINs. Affected individuals were offered 12 months of identity theft monitoring and restoration services through Experian.

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Maine clockDiscovered Nov 10, 2020 → Filed with AG Dec 10, 202030d ✓ 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

Nov 10, 2020

Begins

Nov 10, 2020

Discovered

Dec 10, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_30083d1eae0d677f2020-12-10Verified
Montana State AGbd_ac1ed11c901502c42020-12-10Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_3342767f104cb53f2020-12-18 · +8dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_93a0a624f3fce5042020-12-18 · +8dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 20d gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_5ae561446033257a2020-12-22 · +12dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_5eb237bb8ca1e6fd2020-11-20 · +20dCandidate

Name: Sam's Club
norm: sam s club
Domain: samsclub.com

Name: Sam's Club
norm: sam s club
Domain: samsclub.com
Also named: Sam's West, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Sam's Clubdba oftrade name
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Nov 10, 2020
Breach occurred: Nov 10, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 10, 2020
Affected individuals: 418state + nationwide
Data types: Financial accountCredentials
Data elements: Financial account number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access

Changes made: Offered 12 months of identity theft monitoring and restoration services through Experian.
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: Nov 10, 2020
→ Filed with AG: Dec 10, 2020
30d 30 days ME AG ≤30d

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
Maine	Discovered: Nov 10, 2020 → Filed with AG: Dec 10, 2020	30d	30 days	ME AG ≤30d

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGNov 20 · first

Indiana State AG+20d

Montana State AG+20d

Maine State AG+20d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+28d

Indiana State AG+28d

New Hampshire State AG+32d

Pattern: first filing Nov 20 (IN), last Dec 22 (NH) — a 32-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://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/8bcf27dd-7f39-46e1-8c55-6b2daad8826f.shtml
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 10, 2020
Raw hash: ae3171a9d73f5e6c50958d8bbe8584081367ab7444cf83ffcfd696d89d86b869

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySam's Club

Victim entitySam's Club

Incidentdiscovered Nov 10, 2020

Stated responseOffered 12 months of identity theft monitoring and restoration services through Experian.

ComplianceME AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.maine.gov