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MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIPCIIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Plow and Hearth, LLC

bd_6d744984c173a339 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 6, 2017

Filed

Mar 14, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

345state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Plow and Hearth, LLC3 incidents on file

Plow & Hearth notified customers that its e-commerce platform provider, Aptos, Inc., experienced a malware intrusion between Feb and Dec 2016. The incident compromised customer PII and payment card data for transactions from 2013-2016. No evidence of misuse was found at the time of notification.

Incident timeline

undetected · 371 days
discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Feb 1, 2016

Begins

Feb 6, 2017

Discovered

Mar 14, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Washington State AGFeb 25 · first
Montana State AG+17d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 25 (WA), last Apr 11 (HI) — a 45-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.