AccidentalRetail & ConsumerRetailMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 24, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC →

Mercedes-Benz USA notified Montana residents of a vendor misconfiguration exposing customer PII (SSN, credit card, DOB) between June 2017 and May 2021. No evidence of misuse found. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

Jun 1, 2017

Begins

Jun 24, 2021

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
norm: mercedes benz usa

Name: Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
norm: mercedes benz usa
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jun 1, 2017 – May 31, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 24, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

During the incident: The misconfiguration has now been fixed
Purchased a credit monitoring and identity protection service from Experian
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.

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/OCP/a-notif-18.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 24, 2021
Raw hash: 482b76354b4066a2fe9d0b4e026f247bd82a3ab817f69e8981e60de7f0984dc6

Reporting entityMercedes-Benz USA, LLC

Victim entityMercedes-Benz USA, LLC

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseThe misconfiguration has now been fixed

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov