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KIND Inc.

bd_8bde38cedb1e51b4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Filed

Feb 6, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

60%
Full breach record for KIND Inc.

Press / market disclosure — not a breach-notification filing

A media or market posting that confirms an incident but carries no breach-notification fields, so compliance clocks aren't assessable. The summary below is extracted from the coverage — verify against the source.

Handelsblatt. Kind: The hearing aid manufacturer Kind was the target of a hacker attack, affecting communication with more than 600 specialized stores in addition to its headquarters in Burgwedel near Hanover. However, no evidence of customer data theft was found. The systems were immediately shut down to prevent further damage, and checks are underway before they are gradually restarted.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 6, 2024

Press report

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Attack → press

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market reportThis record

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

If an SEC 8-K, state-AG notice or victim statement lands, DisclosureLens merges it into an incident and links it here.

Source ceiling

  • incident type + narrative only (may be machine-translated)
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • affected count
  • data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.