AccidentalRetail & ConsumerRetailMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

ASCENA RETAIL GROUP, INC.

bd_7542670194de69fc · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 13, 2014

Filed

Dec 17, 2014

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for ASCENA RETAIL GROUP, INC. →

Ascena Retail Group, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a data error by payroll provider ADP on Nov 13, 2014. A misgenerated report exposed employee email addresses and SSNs to another ADP client. One NH resident affected. ADP corrected the error and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 34 days

Nov 13, 2014

Discovered

Dec 17, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. supply-chain incident (2014) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_9d28961b87a769fe2014-12-18 · +1dVerified

Name: BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP
norm: baker hostetler

Name: ASCENA RETAIL GROUP, INC.
norm: ascena retail
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Nov 13, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 17, 2014
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via ADP

During the incident: Notified affected employees
Offered complimentary one-year credit monitoring service through ADP
Corrected the report generation error
Changes made: ADP corrected the report generation error
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(34 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGDec 17 · first · this page

Massachusetts 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/ascena-20141217.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 17, 2014
Raw hash: 4065b1e70bf3cb16d205fe91842c814e465709233c2c755cd8e7819ea615d3fb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBAKER & HOSTETLER LLP

Victim entityASCENA RETAIL GROUP, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Nov 13, 2014

Stated responseNotified affected employees

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov