FEDERALItem 8.01 · voluntaryMalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareHiveData EncryptedLowContained

CITI TRENDS, INC.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 14, 2023

Filed

Feb 23, 2023

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for CITI TRENDS, INC. →5 incidents on file

Citi Trends, Inc. experienced a ransomware attack by the Hive group on January 14, 2023, disrupting back office and distribution center IT systems. The FBI and DOJ disrupted the Hive network on January 26, 2023, and provided tools for system restoration. The company confirmed that sensitive customer data is not retained on its systems and that stores and financial systems remained operational. The impact was not material to Q4 FY2022 results.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 40 days

Jan 14, 2023

Begins

Jan 14, 2023

Discovered

Feb 23, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

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

Name: CITI TRENDS, INC.
norm: citi trends
SEC CIK: 0001318484
Domain: cititrends.com

Name: CITI TRENDS, INC.
norm: citi trends
SEC CIK: 0001318484
Domain: cititrends.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 14, 2023
Breach occurred: Jan 14, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: —
Attack vector: Ransomware· Hive
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: HiveExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: U.S. Department of Justice and FBI announced disruption of Hive networkFBI provided tools to restore systems

During the incident: Activated its incident response and business continuity plan
Engaged incident response partners
Used FBI-provided tools to restore affected systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(40 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 filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statementThis record

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318484/000110465923024793/
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Feb 23, 2023
Raw hash: bed9ea215704b1319583d05bacb7900704c6bbc3b1b9938b2f9b11abf6bfba0c

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Reporting entityCITI TRENDS, INC.

Victim entityCITI TRENDS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 14, 2023

Stated responseActivated its incident response and business continuity plan

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.sec.gov

Source filing