PhysicalTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
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Full breach record for W.W. GRAINGER, INC. →W.W. Grainger, Inc. reported the theft of an employee's laptop on August 23, 2017. The device contained personal information of current and former employees and their dependents, including names, contact information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and employee benefits information. Grainger disabled the employee's credentials and set the laptop to auto-wipe. No evidence of data access was found. The company offered one year of complimentary identity monitoring through Kroll.
This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_9ca68e4c68eb46f8Oregon State AGfiled 2017-09-20(1d gap)Verified
- bd_5bf6d6a1d1b60755HHS OCRfiled 2017-09-18(1d gap)Verified
- bd_8607cff885381d4dWashington State AGfiled 2017-09-18(1d gap)Candidate
- bd_ac98d18c1dadc52fMontana State AGfiled 2017-09-18(1d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-101989
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 19, 2017
- Raw hash
- 5e6bb6e40e823da6329df82220dd1d792f22d85b3214e30b496c3a54ecfbb097
Reporting entity
- Name
- W.W. GRAINGER, INC.norm: ww grainger
- Domain
- grainger.com
Victim entity
- Name
- W.W. GRAINGER, INC.norm: ww grainger
- Domain
- grainger.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 23, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.