HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsBECCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2012

Filed

Apr 2, 2012

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC. →5 incidents on file

BJ's Wholesale Club notified the NH Attorney General that on March 1, 2012, it learned of unauthorized use of one NH resident's profile to create a new online account and make fraudulent purchases between Nov 2011 and Mar 2012. Data exposed: name, address, membership number, SSN. One individual affected. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 121 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

Nov 1, 2011

Begins

Mar 1, 2012

Discovered

Apr 2, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.
norm: bj s wholesale club

Name: BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.
norm: bj s wholesale club
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2012
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2011 – Mar 1, 2012
Undetected for: 121 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 30, 2012
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General's Office
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an investigation to review the facts and circumstances around this incident
Offered one year of free credit monitoring to this individual
Issued a new BJ’s membership number to him
Changes made: Providing 12 months of credit monitoring at no cost
Issuing new membership numbers to affected members
Taking measures to help ensure that this does not happen again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(32 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/bjs-20120402.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 2, 2012
Raw hash: 0cec7607ff5c605f08ade9bdf7cbc2bf0f841054c4bde5f7d3a0655d2ef82742

Reporting entityBJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.

Victim entityBJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2012

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to review the facts and circumstances around this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov