HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDCredentialsMediumContained

WALMART INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 31, 2024

Filed

Feb 26, 2024

To disclose

26 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for WALMART INC. →15 incidents on file

Walmart Inc. notified the NH AG of a late January 2024 incident where an unauthorized party accessed Spark Driver accounts. Affected data included driver verification, tax info, background checks, and credentials. Walmart reset passwords, implemented additional security checks, notified law enforcement, and provided 2 years of Kroll identity monitoring to 1 NH resident.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 26 days

Jan 31, 2024

Discovered

Feb 26, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_27e6bbf8dcbab8f92024-02-23 · +3dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_bf07dc745457d22b2024-02-23 · +3dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_3cec884b1d7630452024-02-22 · +4dVerified
Montana State AGbd_efc1bd8d7f8d478c2024-02-22 · +4dCandidate

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Indiana State AGbd_1a71b2f8f9275f872024-04-05 · +39dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_7e26bda4ba7b18832024-04-05 · +39dVerified

Name: WALMART INC.
norm: walmart
Domain: walmart.com

Name: WALMART INC.
norm: walmart
Domain: walmart.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 31, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 21, 2024
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDCredentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an investigation
Took steps to secure the relevant accounts and prevent further unauthorized access
Resetting the affected individuals’ driver profile passwords
Notified law enforcement of the matter
Changes made: Reset your driver profile password
Implemented an additional knowledge-check mechanism required to access sensitive information in driver profiles
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for two years
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 days(26 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 · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 22 · first

Montana State AGFeb 22 · first

Maine State AG+1d

Indiana State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+4d · this page

Indiana State AG+43d

Massachusetts State AG+43d

Pattern: first filing Feb 22 (MA), last Apr 5 (MA) — a 43-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/walmart-spark-driver-20240226.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 26, 2024
Raw hash: 56b0c7bc5f3224c5966307b7016de49248df25795f7bb6de87471a33fedec5c4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWALMART INC.

Victim entityWALMART INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 31, 2024

Stated responseLaunched an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov