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HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCredentialsPIIHighResolved

VF Outdoor, LLC

bd_7d4bed9d72ecad10 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Aug 11, 2022

Filed

Sep 6, 2022

To disclose

26 days

Affected · nationwide

194,905160 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

75%
All records for VF Outdoor, LLC →4 incidents on file

Account takeover notice

VF Outdoor, LLC notified customers of unauthorized attempts to access their accounts. The filing says: “If other, please specify: Credential stuffing attack, which is a specific type of data security incident whereby an attacker uses account authentication credentials (e.g., email addresses/usernames and passwords), often obtained from another source, such as a breach of another company, system, or website, to gain unauthorized access to user accounts.”

Maine clockDiscovered Aug 11, 2022 → Filed with AG Sep 6, 202226d ✓ ME AG ≤30d26 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 · 16 days
discovery → filing · 26 days

Jul 26, 2022

Begins

Aug 11, 2022

Discovered

Sep 6, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGSep 5 · first
Maine State AG+1d · 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.