PhysicalRetail & ConsumerRetailTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 23, 2017

Filed

Sep 19, 2017

To disclose

27 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for W.W. GRAINGER, INC. →3 incidents on file

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.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 27 days

Aug 23, 2017

Begins

Aug 23, 2017

Discovered

Sep 19, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 8 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_f196cd845aedd1db2017-09-19Verified
Oregon State AGbd_9ca68e4c68eb46f82017-09-20 · +1dVerified
HHS OCRbd_5bf6d6a1d1b607552017-09-18 · +1dVerified
Washington State AGbd_8607cff885381d4d2017-09-18 · +1dCandidate

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New Hampshire State AGbd_933dda5a75b2fa4d2017-09-18 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_ac98d18c1dadc52f2017-09-18 · +1dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_260a4c6ff222aef92017-09-22 · +3dVerified

Name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
norm: ww grainger
Domain: grainger.com

Name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
norm: ww grainger
Domain: grainger.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Aug 23, 2017
Breach occurred: Aug 23, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Launched an investigation to determine the specifics and information involved
Disabled the team member’s network and all other IT credentials
Set the laptop to automatically wipe its contents completely and permanently the next time it connects to the internet
Working closely with law enforcement and outside security experts in an effort to find the laptop and apprehend the criminal
Providing identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year through Kroll
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

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HHS OCRSep 18 · first

Washington State AGSep 18 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 18 · first

Montana State AGSep 18 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

California State AG+1d · this page

Oregon State AG+2d

South Carolina State AG+4d

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://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

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityW.W. GRAINGER, INC.

Victim entityW.W. GRAINGER, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 23, 2017

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to determine the specifics and information involved

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov