MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC.

bd_ab208d75cc9435ea · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 2, 2022

Filed

Aug 18, 2022

To disclose

16 days

Affected

4,866state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC. →3 incidents on file

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. notified the Washington AG of a data breach affecting 4,866 residents. Third-party vendor Freestyle Solutions experienced a malware incident on its server hosting ShopRuger.com from Sept 2020 to Feb 2022. Malware captured checkout data including names, addresses, and payment card details. Ruger notified customers on Aug 18, 2022, and offered 12 months of identity protection.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d16 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 · 683 days

discovery → filing · 16 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Aug 2, 2022

Discovered

Aug 18, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of FreeStyle Solutions supply-chain incident (2022) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2756ba599a1cd56c2022-08-18Verified
Indiana State AGbd_4fae1ff48d4333632022-08-18Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_424fddae629065202022-08-19 · +1dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_1f4061fbb0cfdce22022-08-17 · +1dVerified

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 16d gap

California State AGbd_38f04b97485bb4182022-08-17 · +1dCandidate
Maine State AGbd_9393cab4cdd552b62022-08-17 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_ebaf2f767137b90a2022-08-17 · +1dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_33d8926df2b3726e2022-08-02 · +16dVerified

Name: Day Pitney LLP
norm: day pitney

Name: STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC.
norm: sturm ruger
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Aug 2, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 18, 2020 – Feb 3, 2022
Undetected for: 683 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 18, 2022
Affected individuals: 4,866state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Data elements: NameFinancial account number
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 500+dexposure 500+d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcement authoritiesNotified Washington Attorney General
Third party: via Freestyle Solutions
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: Removed malware from the server
Blocking known malicious users
Changing administrative passwords
Engaged Verizon to conduct an investigation
Notified federal law enforcement authorities
Coordinating with payment card companies
Notified all affected customers
Offering 12 months of identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Offering 12 months of identity theft protection services through IDX
CyberScan monitoring
$1,000,000 Insurance reimbursement policy
Fully managed identity theft recovery services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 8 states

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Delaware State AGAug 2 · first

Delaware State AG+15d

California State AG+15d

Maine State AG+15d

Oregon State AG+15d

Massachusetts State AG+16d

Indiana State AG+16d

Washington State AG+16d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+17d

Pattern: first filing Aug 2 (DE), last Aug 19 (NH) — a 17-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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA14646.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 18, 2022
Raw hash: 8009dc9313cf067a967e08ede61afa66a21dfa5cc64b2305243721fa5b47cd2b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDay Pitney LLP

Victim entitySTURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 2, 2022

Stated responseRemoved malware from the server

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com