MisuseRetail & ConsumerRetailData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumContained

NORDSTROM, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 9, 2018

Filed

Nov 5, 2018

To disclose

27 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for NORDSTROM, INC. →7 incidents on file

Nordstrom, Inc. notified the California Attorney General of an incident on October 9, 2018, where a contract worker improperly handled employee data. The incident involved name, SSN, pay card, bank account, insurance, salary, DOB, address, and phone number. No customer data was impacted. Nordstrom notified law enforcement, removed the worker's access, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 9, 2018 → Notified Nov 5, 201827d ✓ CA 60-day OK27 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 27 days

Oct 9, 2018

Begins

Oct 9, 2018

Discovered

Nov 5, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Oregon State AGbd_91218bdcbbb8241a2018-11-05Candidate
Washington State AGbd_c53d4842eee280732018-11-05Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_d7f11da71dbc8c232018-11-05Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_502090660c56a3e32018-11-06 · +1dVerified

Name: NORDSTROM, INC.
norm: nordstrom

Name: NORDSTROM, INC.
norm: nordstrom
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 9, 2018
Breach occurred: Oct 9, 2018
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 5, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: Partner
Third party: via Contract worker
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Began a comprehensive investigation
Removed access for the contract worker who improperly handled the information
Changes made: Putting additional measures in place to help prevent this from happening again
Offering free Identity Repair and Fraud Alerts with Credit Monitoring services for 24 months through AllClear ID
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 27d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Oct 9, 2018
→ Notified: Nov 5, 2018
27d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 9, 2018 → Notified: Nov 5, 2018	27d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Oregon State AGNov 5 · first

Washington State AGNov 5 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 5 · first

California State AGNov 5 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

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/sb24-141428
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 5, 2018
Raw hash: be28030f02c36061bacc77e3b784e07732b1a70cbe865d1148022b605822b560

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNORDSTROM, INC.

Victim entityNORDSTROM, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 9, 2018

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov