AccidentalRetail & ConsumerRetailMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedCredentialsPIILowContained

QVC, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 17, 2016

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for QVC, Inc. →4 incidents on file

QVC, Inc. disclosed a data breach where a technical misconfiguration caused tracking technology to unintentionally send customer email addresses and passwords to online marketing partners. QVC corrected the setting, suspended data transmission, deleted passwords, and credited affected accounts $10. No specific count of affected individuals was provided in the filing.

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Breach window unknown

Nov 17, 2016

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

Name: QVC, Inc.
norm: qvc

Name: QVC, Inc.
norm: qvc
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: CredentialsPII
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Regulator citations: Filed data security breach notification with California Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Corrected the technical setting
Suspended sending the information to the online marketing partners
Deleted customer passwords
Credited $10 to affected customer accounts
Changes made: Encouraged customers to reset passwords
Recommended using separate passwords for all separate log in credentials
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-64962
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 17, 2016
Raw hash: 57dd12a80802027430dc7d6196911bd6aff4c492ecd0a8182a8c58a5c3f964fd

Reporting entityQVC, Inc.

Victim entityQVC, Inc.

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseCorrected the technical setting

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov