HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPIIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Sears Holdings Corporation

bd_6ccd597659c183d3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2018

Filed

May 18, 2018

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

1,193state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Sears Holdings Corporation →3 incidents on file

Sears Holdings notified South Carolina AG that a third-party vendor incorporating a malicious script into Sears.com/Kmart.com code collected names, addresses, and payment card info from customers who placed online orders between Sept 27 and Oct 12, 2017. Vendor notified Sears in mid-March 2018. Sears notified card companies, investigated, and cooperated with law enforcement.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due11 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 155 days

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 78 days

Sep 27, 2017

Begins

Mar 1, 2018

Discovered

May 18, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

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_34500406ffb3c68c2018-05-17 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_e91e1c561709d7b72018-04-25 · +23dVerified
Washington State AGbd_4127990c5317e1c82018-04-24 · +24dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_542e3870138514372018-04-24 · +24dVerified

Name: Sears Holdings Corporation
norm: sears holdings
Domain: searsholdings.com

Name: Sears Holdings Corporation
norm: sears holdings
Domain: searsholdings.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2018
Breach occurred: Sep 27, 2017 – Oct 12, 2017
Undetected for: 155 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 25, 2018
Affected individuals: 1,193state-resident count only
Data types: PIIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1056 Input CaptureT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Cooperating with law enforcement authorities
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Notified the payment card companies
Conducted a thorough investigation of the incident
Cooperating with law enforcement authorities
Changes made: Vendor has taken steps to secure its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(78 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Washington State AGApr 24 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 24 · first

Montana State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+23d

South Carolina State AG+24d · this page

Pattern: first filing Apr 24 (WA), last May 18 (SC) — a 24-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2018/SearsHoldings.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 18, 2018
Raw hash: 27239ab67003a6771be93ed7b5162374a952c62548468d2a9c154c2948eb207c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySears Holdings Corporation

Victim entitySears Holdings Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2018

Stated responseNotified the payment card companies

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov