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

Vermont Nut Free Chocolates

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 1, 2022

Filed

Sep 6, 2022

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

468state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Vermont Nut Free Chocolates →4 incidents on file

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

+23 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed468 affectedView incident

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.

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

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