HackingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIICREDENTIALSHighContained
Shein
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Full breach record for Shein →Shein, a global fashion retailer, disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 6.42 million customers. The incident, occurring between June and August 2018, involved unauthorized access to customer email addresses and encrypted passwords. Shein engaged forensic investigators and legal counsel, removed malware, closed backdoor access points, and notified affected customers, offering one year of identity theft monitoring.
California clockDiscovered Aug 22, 2018 → Notified Sep 21, 201830d ✓ CA 60-day OK7 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_62e301b01675a2e5Oregon State AGfiled 2018-10-11(1d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-140625
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 10, 2018
- Raw hash
- 8bf1a86640e27bd30648baf1855d4cb30f4387c1e578969e5a51b75f54ef14a8
Reporting entity
- Name
- Sheinnorm: shein
- Domain
- shein.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Sheinnorm: shein
- Domain
- shein.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 22, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 21, 2018
- Affected individuals
- 6,420,000
- Data types
- PIICREDENTIALS
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- notifying the proper authorities
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 7 weeks(49 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 30d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Aug 22, 2018→ Notified: Sep 21, 201830d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.