PhysicalRetail & ConsumerRetailLossCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 3, 2008

Filed

Jan 15, 2008

To disclose

12 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC. →5 incidents on file

BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. notified New Hampshire residents of a missing mobile backup device (thumb drive) containing employee names and Social Security numbers. The device was last accessed on Dec 31, 2007, and discovered missing on Jan 3, 2008. The company offered one year of credit monitoring and replaced drives with encrypted versions.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 12 days

Dec 31, 2007

Begins

Jan 3, 2008

Discovered

Jan 15, 2008

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

Name: BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.
norm: bj s wholesale club

Name: BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.
norm: bj s wholesale club
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 3, 2008
Breach occurred: Dec 31, 2007
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 15, 2008
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium

During the incident: Launched an investigation to review the facts and circumstances around this incident
Making arrangements to provide one year of credit monitoring at no cost
Recalling all drives that are currently being used and replacing them with encrypted, password-protected drives
Changes made: Evaluating policies and procedures to strengthen and reinforce security practices pertaining to the use of mobile storage devices
Replacing mobile drives with encrypted, password-protected drives
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 days from discovery to filing)
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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/bjs-wholesale-20080115.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 15, 2008
Raw hash: 8651b79f7e435b31081ecea2d3a2606efc57bd7a1a531312c9d7956c96bd9062

Reporting entityBJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.

Victim entityBJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 3, 2008

Stated responseLaunched an investigation to review the facts and circumstances around this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov