DisclosureLens
HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailAbuse Of FunctionalityData ExfiltratedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)PCIFinancial accountLowContained

Bumblebee Batteries, LLC

bd_ec1c02b667669cbe · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 1, 2019

Filed

Nov 7, 2019

To disclose

40 weeks

Affected

144state residents only

Confidence

65%

Bumblebee Batteries, LLC notified Montana AG that its website was compromised by malicious code implanted by an unknown third party. The code, present from July 25, 2018, to Feb 5, 2019, captured customer PII and payment card data. The vendor removed the code and is conducting audits.

Incident timeline

undetected · 191 days
discovery → filing · 40 weeks / 279 days

Jul 25, 2018

Begins

Feb 1, 2019

Discovered

Nov 7, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+32 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed144 affectedView incident

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.