HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Smithfield Foods

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 7, 2023

Filed

Jun 29, 2023

To disclose

22 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Smithfield Foods →3 incidents on file

Smithfield Specialty Foods Group LLC notified Vermont AG that a third-party web host, CommerceV3, Inc., suffered a cyberattack exposing customer names, billing addresses, emails, and payment card details (including CVV) for purchases made between Nov 2021 and Dec 2022. Smithfield suspended the host's functionality, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of credit monitoring. No specific count of affected individuals was provided in the filing.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday22 days discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 560 days

discovery → filing · 22 days

Nov 24, 2021

Begins

Jun 7, 2023

Discovered

Jun 29, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Part of CommerceV3 supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

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

Name: Smithfield Foods
norm: smithfield foods
Domain: smithfieldfoods.com

Name: Smithfield Foods
norm: smithfield foods
Domain: smithfieldfoods.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jun 7, 2023
Breach occurred: Nov 24, 2021 – Dec 14, 2022
Undetected for: 560 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Jun 29, 2023
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: CV3 notified law enforcement
Third party: via CommerceV3, Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Suspended the impacted functionality of the third-party web hosting service
Working with CV3 to address this issue
CV3 has engaged a cybersecurity firm to support their investigation
Notified the payment card issuers about the incident
CV3 also informed us that they notified law enforcement
Implemented additional security measures on their systems
Offering all affected customers one year of complimentary credit monitoring services
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures on their systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-06-29-smithfield-specialty-foods-group-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2023
Raw hash: 13308e278a155ea93dcd0c9b889b6a270f3e235fc00b23248933bb2814f70992

Reporting entitySmithfield Foods

Victim entitySmithfield Foods

Incidentdiscovered Jun 7, 2023

Stated responseSuspended the impacted functionality of the third-party web hosting service

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov