HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedCredentialsAuthenticationLowContained

BED BATH & BEYOND, INC.

bd_e60050beb1dab39b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 29, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

63%

Full breach record for BED BATH & BEYOND, INC. →12 incidents on file

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. disclosed that a third party used email and password information acquired outside the company to access a limited number of online accounts between September 4 and September 27, 2019. Security Challenge Questions and Answers may have been visible. Payment cards were not compromised. The company conducted an internal investigation, retained a forensics firm, and implemented enhanced security measures. Affected customers were advised to reset passwords and change security questions.

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Incident timeline

Sep 4, 2019

Begins

Oct 29, 2019

Filed

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

Name: BED BATH & BEYOND, INC.
norm: bed bath beyond
Domain: bedbathandbeyond.com

Name: BED BATH & BEYOND, INC.
norm: bed bath beyond
Domain: bedbathandbeyond.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Sep 4, 2019 – Sep 27, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 29, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: CredentialsAuthentication
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Conducted an extensive internal investigation
Retained a leading security forensics firm
Implemented enhanced security measures
Blocked access to your account by disabling your old password
Changes made: Implemented enhanced security measures to help prevent this type of incident from happening in the future
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/sb24-183914
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 29, 2019
Raw hash: 1f4c0b649d43fd125942a5b1b89e839d80f63c4cf79637a9fb168144999d8115

Reporting entityBED BATH & BEYOND, INC.

Victim entityBED BATH & BEYOND, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseConducted an extensive internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov