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HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)BehaviorCredentialsMediumContained

VF Outdoor, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 9, 2020

Filed

Nov 5, 2020

To disclose

27 days

Affected · nationwide

34,58259 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%
All records for VF Outdoor, LLC →4 incidents on file

Account takeover notice

VF Outdoor, LLC notified customers of unauthorized access to their accounts. The filing says: “We believe that on October 8, 2020 and October 9, 2020 we were subject to a credential stuffing attack, in which the attacker gained access to email addresses and passwords from another source and used those as credentials to access user accounts on thenorthface.com.”

VF Outdoor (The North Face) reported a credential stuffing attack on thenorthface.com occurring October 8-9, 2020. The attacker accessed user accounts using stolen credentials, viewing names, addresses, VIPeak points, and purchase history. Payment card data was tokenized and not accessed. 34,582 individuals were affected (59 in Delaware). Notices were sent November 5, 2020.

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days
discovery → filing · 27 days

Oct 8, 2020

Begins

Oct 9, 2020

Discovered

Nov 5, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGNov 5 · first
Oregon State AGNov 5 · first
Delaware State AGNov 5 · first · 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.