MisuseRetail & ConsumerRetailData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

NORDSTROM, INC.

bd_c53d4842eee28073 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Oct 9, 2018

Filed

Nov 5, 2018

To disclose

27 days

Affected

13,442state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

71%

Full breach record for NORDSTROM, INC. →7 incidents on file

Nordstrom, Inc. notified the Washington AG of a data security incident on November 5, 2018, involving a contract worker who improperly handled employee data on October 9, 2018. Approximately 13,442 Washington residents were affected. Data included names, SSNs, pay card numbers, and banking details. No customer data was impacted. Nordstrom notified law enforcement, terminated the worker's access, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 27 days

Oct 9, 2018

Begins

Oct 9, 2018

Discovered

Nov 5, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_692931f2eb247e132018-11-05Verified
Oregon State AGbd_91218bdcbbb8241a2018-11-05Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_d7f11da71dbc8c232018-11-05Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_502090660c56a3e32018-11-06 · +1dVerified

Name: NORDSTROM, INC.
norm: nordstrom

Name: NORDSTROM, INC.
norm: nordstrom
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 9, 2018
Breach occurred: Oct 9, 2018
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 5, 2018
Affected individuals: 13,442state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberFinancial account numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Theft or Mistake
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 0dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Began a comprehensive investigation
Providing affected individuals with 24 months of identity protection and credit monitoring services at no cost to them
Changes made: Contract worker no longer has any access to our systems
Putting additional measures in place to help prevent this from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

California State AGNov 5 · first

Oregon State AGNov 5 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 5 · first

Washington State AGNov 5 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

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/BreachM10587.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 5, 2018
Raw hash: 3fe869852fd06b34faa5124ccc29089f22e9d1beefba8f7bbd6df3437450b215

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNORDSTROM, INC.

Victim entityNORDSTROM, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 9, 2018

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com