HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Bluestem Brands, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 13, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

62state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Bluestem Brands, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Bluestem Brands, Inc. (d/b/a Fingerhut and Gettington) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a cyber-attack occurring between March 24 and April 7, 2017. The incident affected 62 New Hampshire residents, exposing names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and credit account numbers. Bluestem blocked access, stopped purchases, and placed fraud holds on accounts. Notices were mailed on April 13, 2017.

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Incident timeline

Mar 24, 2017

Begins

Apr 13, 2017

Filed

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

Montana State AGbd_a5699ba08cf4807d2017-04-13Candidate
California State AGbd_d5010f50502fedc62017-04-13Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_674a80d32ecde53a2017-04-06 · +7dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c64d2e5efabfebe32017-05-08 · +25dVerified

Name: Bluestem Brands, Inc.
norm: bluestem brands

Name: Bluestem Brands, Inc.
norm: bluestem brands
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 24, 2017 – Apr 7, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 13, 2017
Affected individuals: 62state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 359C:20
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Blocked access to the affected web accounts
Stopped any attempted purchases
Placed a fraud hold on the accounts
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.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 6 · first

Montana State AG+7d

California State AG+7d

New Hampshire State AG+7d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+32d

Pattern: first filing Apr 6 (MA), last May 8 (NH) — a 32-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/bluestem-20170413.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 13, 2017
Raw hash: 704d26cd308f641313a523fa7f7d668ffc045691636c4af571995563ea0e1794

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBluestem Brands, Inc.

Victim entityBluestem Brands, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBlocked access to the affected web accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov