DisclosureLens
Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Sam's Club

bd_b5f7ad4d0323fe25 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 15, 2020

Filed

Oct 21, 2020

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Sam's Club2 incidents on file

Sam's Club notified affected individuals in Delaware and other states that an unauthorized party used stolen login credentials (likely from a third-party source) to access accounts in mid-September 2020. The incident involved access to names, addresses, and Cash Rewards balances. Sam's Club reset passwords, issued new membership numbers, and offered one year of free credit monitoring via Experian.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Sep 15, 2020

Begins

Sep 15, 2020

Discovered

Oct 21, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 8d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGOct 21 · first
Indiana State AGOct 21 · first
Massachusetts State AGOct 21 · first
Montana State AGOct 21 · first
Oregon State AGOct 21 · first
Washington State AGOct 21 · first
Delaware State AGOct 21 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 21 (CA), last Oct 29 (SC) — a 8-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.