AccidentalRetail & ConsumerRetailMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 19, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

281state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Lowe's Companies, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Lowe's Companies, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General that its third-party vendor, SafetyFirst, unintentionally backed up driver and employee data (including SSNs and driver's licenses) to an unsecured internet-accessible server. Access occurred between July 2013 and April 2014. 281 NH residents affected. No evidence of misuse. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

Jul 1, 2013

Begins

May 19, 2014

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_59ff6c3249237e252014-05-19Candidate

Name: Lowe's Companies, Inc.
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Name: Lowe's Companies, Inc.
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Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jul 1, 2013 – Apr 30, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 19, 2014
Affected individuals: 281state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Third party: via SafetyFirst

During the incident: Blocked access to the unsecured backup server
Retained data security experts to conduct an investigation
Arranged to provide affected individuals with one year of identity protection and credit monitoring services at no cost
Changes made: Provided one year of credit protection services from AllClear ID
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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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California State AGMay 19 · first

New Hampshire State AGMay 19 · first · this page

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/lowes-companies-20140519.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 19, 2014
Raw hash: cef0d94f61a5359a9cf0d518e6635aef15ff0ce1f0f54775156cee8ece780763

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLowe's Companies, Inc.

Victim entityLowe's Companies, Inc.

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseBlocked access to the unsecured backup server

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov