AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Walmart 401(k) Retirement Plan

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 23, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

8state residents only

Confidence

65%

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Merrill (Bank of America) notified participants of the Walmart 401(k) Retirement Plan of a data breach on May 23, 2024. On April 16, 2024, an employee email error resulted in the disclosure of names and Social Security numbers. Merrill is offering two years of Experian IdentityWorks protection.

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Incident timeline

Apr 16, 2024

Begins

May 23, 2024

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed8 affectedView incident

Name: Merrill, a Bank of America Company
norm: merrill

Name: Walmart 401(k) Retirement Plan
norm: walmart 401 k retirement plan
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 16, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 23, 2024
Affected individuals: 8state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Unused/Unknown Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Providing a complimentary two-year membership in an identity theft protection service provided by Experian IdentityWorks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-1420.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 23, 2024
Raw hash: ecd1ccb8cf8a305c8e0a20ca900dbc2479d0049e82113e204da32a551de1426a

Reporting entityMerrill, a Bank of America Company

Victim entityWalmart 401(k) Retirement Plan

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseProviding a complimentary two-year membership in an identity theft protection service provided by Experian IdentityWorks

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov