HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDCredentialsMediumContained

Le Duff America, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 21, 2019

Filed

Jun 26, 2020

To disclose

40 weeks

Affected

17state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Le Duff America, Inc. →

Le Duff America, Inc. notified the NH AG of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between Aug 28 and Sep 21, 2019. The incident affected 17 NH residents, exposing names, SSNs, and passwords. Le Duff engaged forensic specialists, reset passwords, and offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 24 days

discovery → filing · 40 weeks / 279 days

Aug 28, 2019

Begins

Sep 21, 2019

Discovered

Jun 26, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+32 wks slower

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_13e6aced07390f0b2020-06-18 · +8dVerified
Montana State AGbd_7dc9700e0562a43a2020-06-18 · +8dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_89d3fbbbc0ece5bb2020-06-18 · +8dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ab595021efbd82c52020-06-18 · +8dVerified

Name: Le Duff America, Inc.
norm: le duff america

Name: Le Duff America, Inc.
norm: le duff america
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 21, 2019
Breach occurred: Aug 28, 2019 – Sep 21, 2019
Undetected for: 24 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 18, 2020
Affected individuals: 17state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDCredentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Providing notice to other state regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an investigation to determine what may have happened
Working together with a leading computer forensics specialist
Reviewed the entire contents of the impacted email accounts
Identified the individuals potentially impacted by this incident after a thorough programmatic and manual review
Began mailing written notice of this incident to potentially impacted individuals
Offering the affected individuals complimentary access to one (1) year of free credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian
Providing potentially affected individuals with information on how to protect against identity theft and fraud
Providing notice to other state regulators
Changes made: Quickly changed all employee email account passwords
Took steps to confirm the security of the impacted accounts
Conducted additional employee training
Reviewing its policies and procedures relating to data security
Continuing to monitor its systems to ensure they are secure
Reset passwords for Le Duff email accounts
Implemented increased security measures for email account access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 40 weeks(279 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

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California State AGJun 18 · first

Montana State AGJun 18 · first

Indiana State AGJun 18 · first

Massachusetts State AGJun 18 · first

New Hampshire State AG+8d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jun 18 (CA), last Jun 26 (NH) — a 8-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/le-duff-america-20200626.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 26, 2020
Raw hash: 79500e5ad7579735e2d4ae6d9d112b1e1ff9c53beed0d21ec427c739d45bd407

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLe Duff America, Inc.

Victim entityLe Duff America, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 21, 2019

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to determine what may have happened

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov