MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailInfostealerData ExfiltratedTargetedFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Greenworks Tools

bd_7a4ffa35717487c6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 3, 2020

Filed

Sep 17, 2020

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

679state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Greenworks Tools →3 incidents on file

Greenworks Tools notified Washington AG of a cyberattack affecting 679 residents. Malware stole credit/debit card data (name, address, card number, CVV, expiration) from purchases made between July 14, 2019, and June 30, 2020. Suspicious activity discovered June 3, 2020; confirmed August 14, 2020. Notices sent September 17, 2020.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d15 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 325 days

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 106 days

Jul 14, 2019

Begins

Jun 3, 2020

Discovered

Sep 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_5fb4765277810acc2020-09-17Verified
Maine State AGbd_62133428ec6bf76e2020-09-17Verified
California State AGbd_877fd6b0cfd408d72020-09-17Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_a894aa39a71b87f22020-09-17Verified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 79d gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_d741c6501b9eb0042020-09-23 · +6dVerified
Montana State AGbd_b4cfeecddea9ecd62020-06-30 · +79dCandidate

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Greenworks Tools
norm: greenworks tools
Domain: greenworkstools.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jun 3, 2020
Breach occurred: Jul 14, 2019 – Jun 30, 2020
Undetected for: 325 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 17, 2020
Affected individuals: 679state-resident count only
Data types: Financial accountIdentity (basic)
Data elements: NameFinancial account number
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 300-399dexposure 300-399d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notified state regulators
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Began working with third-party forensic investigators
Took steps to implement additional procedures to further protect the security of customer debit and credit card information
Removed the code from its e-commerce website
Changes made: Working to review its existing policies and procedures and to implement additional safeguards to further secure payment information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(106 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGJun 30 · first

Indiana State AG+79d

Maine State AG+79d

California State AG+79d

Massachusetts State AG+79d

Washington State AG+79d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+85d

Pattern: first filing Jun 30 (MT), last Sep 23 (NH) — a 85-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.

Source URL: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10308.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 17, 2020
Raw hash: 4e7d63eaf53c299e810e52d35e5cbbcb3d47dcbf5d2195ad5907cce8d0fd46cb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityGreenworks Tools

Incidentdiscovered Jun 3, 2020

Stated responseBegan working with third-party forensic investigators

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com