HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Gettington

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 13, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

24state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Bluestem Brands, Inc. (via subsidiaries Gettington, Fingerhut, and PayCheck Direct) notified Montana residents of a data security incident where cyber-attackers attempted unauthorized access to customer accounts between March 24 and April 7, 2017. Accessed data included names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and credit account numbers. Access was blocked and fraud holds placed.

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Incident timeline

Mar 24, 2017

Begins

Apr 13, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_d5010f50502fedc62017-04-13Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_dc31d724075bdd082017-04-13Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_674a80d32ecde53a2017-04-06 · +7dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c64d2e5efabfebe32017-05-08 · +25dVerified

Name: Bluestem Brands, Inc.
norm: bluestem brands

Name: Gettington
norm: gettington
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 24, 2017 – Apr 7, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 11, 2017
Affected individuals: 24state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Blocked access to web account
Stopped any attempted purchases
Placed a fraud hold on account
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 · 5 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 6 · first

California State AG+7d

New Hampshire State AG+7d

Montana State AG+7d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+32d

Pattern: first filing Apr 6 (MA), last May 8 (NH) — a 32-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Bluestem-Brands.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 13, 2017
Raw hash: d17caaf790a738b2bfebbd93b4c3833fcb8d57b5924ffe85ca71f36342ab7b73

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBluestem Brands, Inc.

Victim entityGettington

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBlocked access to web account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov