AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountAuthenticationLowContained

DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 17, 2020

Filed

Dec 17, 2020

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES →104 incidents on file

Discover Financial Services notified Montana residents of a data breach caused by an internal error in its credit card mailing system. Between September 29 and November 15, 2020, physical cards were errantly mailed to incorrect customers. Affected data included names, account numbers, expiration dates, and security codes. Discover reissued cards, monitored accounts, and offered two years of Experian IdentityWorks.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 49 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Sep 29, 2020

Begins

Nov 17, 2020

Discovered

Dec 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_97741172ddfcf88c2020-12-17Candidate
Maine State AGbd_d133b2ffaedef9682020-12-17Verified
Indiana State AGbd_da55da9509cbe4b32020-12-17Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ba723dff91b707d02020-12-04 · +13dCandidate

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Massachusetts State AGbd_be18710e2724f7e42020-12-04 · +13dCandidate

Name: DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES
norm: discover financial

Name: DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES
norm: discover financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 17, 2020
Breach occurred: Sep 29, 2020 – Nov 15, 2020
Undetected for: 49 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountAuthentication
Attack vector: Misconfiguration

During the incident: Reissuing all of the cards on your account
Monitoring your account
Reviewing our system controls to help ensure that a similar error does not occur in the future
Arranged to have Experian’s Identity Restoration support available to you and provide you with a complimentary two-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorksSM product and services
Changes made: Reviewing our system controls to help ensure that a similar error does not occur in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGDec 4 · first

Massachusetts State AG+13d

Maine State AG+13d

Indiana State AG+13d

Montana State AG+13d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 4 (MA), last Dec 17 (MT) — a 13-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/discoverSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 17, 2020
Raw hash: 55dfec016378eb32bae9a7ee78ae13c23585a81fa87e3a98d594e6fc6b2e0d73

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES

Victim entityDISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES

Incidentdiscovered Nov 17, 2020

Stated responseReissuing all of the cards on your account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov