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HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountPCILowContained

Sears Holdings Corporation

bd_e91e1c561709d7b7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 1, 2018

Filed

Apr 25, 2018

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

268state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Sears Holdings Corporation →2 incidents on file

Sears Holdings notified Montana AG of a third-party vendor incident where a malicious script collected customer names, addresses, and payment card info from Sears.com and Kmart.com. Occurred Sept 27-Oct 12, 2017; discovered mid-March 2018. No specific count disclosed.

Incident timeline

undetected · 155 days
discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 55 days

Sep 27, 2017

Begins

Mar 1, 2018

Discovered

Apr 25, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 filings 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 23d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Washington State AGApr 24 · first
New Hampshire State AGApr 24 · first
Montana State AG+1d · this page
Oregon State AG+23d
California State AG+23d
South Carolina State AG+24d

Pattern: first filing Apr 24 (WA), last May 18 (SC) — a 24-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.