MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Vermont Nut Free Chocolates

bd_c48066161c852e3b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 1, 2022

Filed

Sep 6, 2022

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

468state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Vermont Nut Free Chocolates →

Vermont Nut Free Chocolates notified NH AG of a breach at third-party vendor Freestyle Solutions involving malware. Unauthorized access to payment card data (names, card numbers, CVV, billing addresses) occurred between Sept 2020 and Feb 2022. 468 NH residents affected. Notifications sent Aug 29, 2022. D2C processing moved away from vendor.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 501 days

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 217 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Feb 1, 2022

Discovered

Sep 6, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+21 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 filings 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 (6) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_303dc495dd82e6562022-09-01 · +5dCandidate
California State AGbd_aa3461363090db2a2022-09-01 · +5dVerified by operator
Maine State AGbd_ee6b2d26bfc660492022-09-01 · +5dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_f2929f3477f533482022-09-01 · +5dVerified

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Montana State AGbd_142a019cb307a98d2022-08-31 · +6dVerified by operator
Indiana State AGbd_02f646a90c22cd462022-08-29 · +8dVerified by operator

Name: Vermont Nut Free Chocolates
norm: vermont nut free chocolates
Domain: vermontnutfree.com

Name: Vermont Nut Free Chocolates
norm: vermont nut free chocolates
Domain: vermontnutfree.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Feb 1, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 18, 2020 – Feb 3, 2022
Undetected for: 501 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 29, 2022
Affected individuals: 468state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Provided written notification to affected residents commencing on or about August 29, 2022
Advised affected residents about the process for placing fraud alerts and/or security freezes on their credit files
Provided contact information for consumer reporting agencies and the Federal Trade Commission
Ensured Freestyle Solutions had contained the threat and disabled all unauthorized access
Coordinated with payment card companies
Changes made: No longer using Freestyle Solutions to perform shopping cart and payment processing services for direct-to-consumer orders
Working with Freestyle Solutions to assure that it takes steps to prevent events like this in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(217 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGAug 29 · first

Montana State AG+2d

Washington State AG+3d

California State AG+3d

Maine State AG+3d

Massachusetts State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+8d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 29 (IN), last Sep 6 (NH) — 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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/vermont-nut-free-chocolates-20220906.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 6, 2022
Raw hash: 68c369ab3c3ac628f012c586acb8d22fc6dea9079263e14b2635dea2ab1479fb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVermont Nut Free Chocolates

Victim entityVermont Nut Free Chocolates

Incidentdiscovered Feb 1, 2022

Stated responseProvided written notification to affected residents commencing on or about August 29, 2022

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov