HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)EmploymentLowContained

Forever 21, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 22, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Forever 21, Inc. →6 incidents on file

Forever 21, Inc. notified the California Attorney General that an unauthorized third party accessed two email accounts of its insurance broker, Willis Towers Watson, between February 15, 2018, and March 23, 2018. The accessed emails contained summary documents related to Forever 21 insurance claims, including names, dates of injury, injury information, and claim amounts. Medical records, SSNs, and financial information were not involved. Forever 21 launched an investigation and offered one year of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

Feb 15, 2018

Begins

Jun 22, 2018

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_a57497f757eef0ba2018-06-01 · +21dCandidate

Name: Forever 21, Inc.
norm: forever 21

Name: Forever 21, Inc.
norm: forever 21
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Feb 15, 2018 – Mar 23, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Employment
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Willis Towers Watson
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Immediately launched an investigation
Began working with WTW to conduct a comprehensive review of the contents of the email accounts
Arranged for affected individuals to enroll in online credit monitoring service (myTrueIdentity) for one year provided by TransUnion Interactive
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures
Continuing to provide further enhancements to its existing security program
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

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California State AGJun 1 · first

California State AG+21d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jun 1 (CA), last Jun 22 (CA) — a 21-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-137352
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 22, 2018
Raw hash: d700e72f4ade0a7e41b0f4e8a9cd9f5212c970149d1ffae4b74df9c350765d1e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityForever 21, Inc.

Victim entityForever 21, Inc.

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseImmediately launched an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov