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Sam's Club

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Severity

High

Discovered

Sep 24, 2020

Filed

Oct 21, 2020

To disclose

27 days

Affected

285,885

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Sam's Club2 incidents on file

Sam's West, Inc. dba Sam's Club reported a data breach to the Oregon Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2020-10-21. The breach occurred during 9/17/2020 - 9/24/2020. The breach was discovered on 9/24/2020. 285,885 individuals were affected. Notice was sent on 10/21/2020.

Oregon clock OR AG ≤45d27 days discovery → filing
AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 7 days
discovery → filing · 27 days

Sep 17, 2020

Begins

Sep 24, 2020

Discovered

Oct 21, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 8d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGOct 21 · first
Indiana State AGOct 21 · first
Massachusetts State AGOct 21 · first
Montana State AGOct 21 · first
Washington State AGOct 21 · first
Delaware State AGOct 21 · first
Oregon State AGOct 21 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 21 (CA), last Oct 29 (SC) — a 8-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.