HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Smithfield Foods

bd_ca375fb341260f4b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 7, 2023

Filed

Jun 29, 2023

To disclose

22 days

Affected

55state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Smithfield Foods →3 incidents on file

Smithfield Specialty Foods Group LLC notified customers of a data breach affecting its third-party web hosting provider, CommerceV3, Inc. (CV3). Unauthorized access occurred between Nov 24, 2021 and Dec 14, 2022, exposing names, billing addresses, emails, and payment card details. CV3 was notified on June 7, 2023. Smithfield suspended the service and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 560 days

discovery → filing · 22 days

Nov 24, 2021

Begins

Jun 7, 2023

Discovered

Jun 29, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of CommerceV3 supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_17bd3711b266bae42023-06-29Verified
Indiana State AGbd_7a4e3d8344499a772023-06-29Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_949fe07294db3e722023-07-03 · +4dVerified

Name: Smithfield Foods
norm: smithfield foods
Domain: smithfieldfoods.com

Name: Smithfield Foods
norm: smithfield foods
Domain: smithfieldfoods.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jun 7, 2023
Breach occurred: Nov 24, 2021 – Dec 14, 2022
Undetected for: 560 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2023
Affected individuals: 55state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: CV3 notified law enforcement
Third party: via CommerceV3, Inc.
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Suspended the impacted functionality of the third-party web hosting service
Working with CV3 to address this issue
CV3 has engaged a cybersecurity firm to support their investigation
Notified the payment card issuers about the incident
CV3 notified law enforcement
CV3 implemented additional security measures on their systems
Offering all affected customers one year of complimentary credit monitoring services
Changes made: CV3 implemented additional security measures on their systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGJun 29 · first

Indiana State AGJun 29 · first

Montana State AGJun 29 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+4d

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-381.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2023
Raw hash: ce20fcb50badf9a5a6f3190c8965590c3d6a5156303b5fe1b0893d9331dbf897

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySmithfield Foods

Victim entitySmithfield Foods

Incidentdiscovered Jun 7, 2023

Stated responseSuspended the impacted functionality of the third-party web hosting service

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov