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HackingRetailCustomer Data InvolvedPIIGovernment IDHigh

The Walman Optical Company

bd_dccf7e0c9aae75cb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Aug 21, 2020

Filed

Mar 31, 2021

To disclose

32 weeks

Affected · nationwide

5,2822 in this filing

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Walman Optical Company →

The Walman Optical Company experienced a data breach on August 21, 2020, which was also discovered on the same day. The breach was a result of an external system breach (hacking) and affected 2 Maine residents. The information acquired included names or other personal identifiers in combination with Social Security Numbers. The company offered 12 months of identity theft protection services, including Web Watcher, Single Bureau Credit Monitoring, Consumer Identity Monitoring, Fraud Consultation, and Identity Theft Restoration. Notification to the affected consumers was made on March 19, 2021.

Maine clockDiscovered Aug 21, 2020 → Filed with AG Mar 31, 2021222d ✗ ME AG >90d32 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 32 weeks / 222 days

Aug 21, 2020

Begins

Aug 21, 2020

Discovered

Mar 31, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 350d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGMar 19 · first
Montana State AGMar 19 · first
Massachusetts State AG+12d
Maine State AG+12d
Maine State AG+12d · this page
New Hampshire State AG+362d

Pattern: first filing Mar 19 (IN), last Mar 16 (NH) — a 362-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.