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THE KROGER CO.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 19, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

300state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for THE KROGER CO. →7 incidents on file

The Kroger Co. and its affiliated companies reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2021-02-19. 300 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Feb 19, 2021

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 8 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Accellion supply-chain incident (2021) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_3e0294adc07168622021-02-19Verified by operator
California State AGbd_6aaa39c445f321cc2021-02-19Verified
Washington State AGbd_be0af4b58344c9362021-02-19Verified
Indiana State AGbd_d1b8496772be04482021-02-19Verified by operator

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Montana State AGbd_f38fff6774acc2fe2021-02-19Verified by operator
South Carolina State AGbd_671cf941212846732021-02-22 · +3dVerified
Montana State AGbd_ce7542d02671c8312021-03-17 · +26dVerified by operator

Name: THE KROGER CO.
norm: the kroger
Domain: kroger.com

Name: THE KROGER CO.
norm: the kroger
Domain: kroger.com

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 300state-resident count only
Data types: Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Stated not affected: Financial account numberDriver's licence numberPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: MA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

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HHS OCRFeb 19 · first

California State AGFeb 19 · first

Washington State AGFeb 19 · first

Indiana State AGFeb 19 · first

Montana State AGFeb 19 · first

Massachusetts State AGFeb 19 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+3d

Montana State AG+26d

Pattern: first filing Feb 19 (OH), last Mar 17 (MT) — a 26-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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2021/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 19, 2021
Raw hash: d84f4f0d20050424645b9968fcd3ab66e95d86ad8cae16772552ebd9dd6fdbe8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTHE KROGER CO.

Victim entityTHE KROGER CO.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov