HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsDelayed DiscoveryCustomer Data InvolvedAuthenticationCredentialsIdentity (basic)HighContained

Zoetop Business Co. Ltd.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Sep 7, 2020

Filed

Dec 30, 2020

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

148,785state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Zoetop Business Co. Ltd. →

Zoetop Business Co. Ltd. (ROMWE) notified Washington AG of a security incident where customer usernames and passwords stolen in July 2018 were found on the dark web. Discovered Sept 7, 2020, the breach affected ~148,785 WA residents. Data included names, emails, phones, and credentials. ROMWE forced password resets and offered identity theft protection.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d16 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 799 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 114 days

Jul 1, 2018

Begins

Sep 7, 2020

Discovered

Dec 30, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_428fb89126c6b0542020-12-30Verified
Montana State AGbd_968d24071690c48b2020-12-30Verified
Oregon State AGbd_9d77d7554153d6ce2020-12-30Candidate
Hawaii State AGbd_271b7984a05d02e12020-12-31 · +1dVerified

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Maine State AGbd_ca8ffe481ed451c32020-12-31 · +1dVerified

Name: Zoetop Business Co. Ltd.
norm: zoetop business
Domain: romwe.com

Name: Zoetop Business Co. Ltd.
norm: zoetop business
Domain: romwe.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 7, 2020
Breach occurred: Jul 1, 2018
Undetected for: 799 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 30, 2020
Affected individuals: 148,785state-resident count only
Data types: AuthenticationCredentialsIdentity (basic)
Data elements: NameUsername + password
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1566 Phishing
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney GeneralNotified the three Credit Reporting Agencies
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Forced password resets for all potentially affected customers
Offering identity theft protection services through IDX
Retained a cybersecurity company and conducted an investigation
Changes made: Increasing password encryption
Using more advanced intrusion detection technologies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(114 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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New Hampshire State AGDec 30 · first

Montana State AGDec 30 · first

Oregon State AGDec 30 · first

Washington State AGDec 30 · first · this page

Hawaii State AG+1d

Maine State AG+1d

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10195.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 30, 2020
Raw hash: 24b679eb9f7ef10c213ad18499ab9ceb6db163563db26ce8b1e275caccc1095f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityZoetop Business Co. Ltd.

Victim entityZoetop Business Co. Ltd.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 7, 2020

Stated responseForced password resets for all potentially affected customers

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com