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

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Sears Holdings Corporation →3 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.

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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

on median

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_4127990c5317e1c82018-04-24 · +1dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_542e3870138514372018-04-24 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_34500406ffb3c68c2018-05-17 · +22dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_6ccd597659c183d32018-05-18 · +23dVerified

Name: Sears Holdings Corporation
norm: sears holdings
Domain: searsholdings.com

Name: Sears Holdings Corporation
norm: sears holdings
Domain: searsholdings.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2018
Breach occurred: Sep 27, 2017 – Oct 12, 2017
Undetected for: 155 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 25, 2018
Affected individuals: 268state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountPCI
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Cooperating with law enforcement authorities
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Notified the payment card companies
Conducted a thorough investigation of the incident
Cooperating with law enforcement authorities
Changes made: Vendor has taken steps to secure its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Washington State AGApr 24 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 24 · first

Montana State AG+1d · this page

Oregon 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.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Sears-Holding-Kmart.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 25, 2018
Raw hash: b32ba5e9c52bd9d99053596edf657ded3243b4295c143a4ffc8c342b20d92d71

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySears Holdings Corporation

Victim entitySears Holdings Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2018

Stated responseNotified the payment card companies

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov