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MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

Freestyle Solutions

bd_f3f2fe6ea215d9fd · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 2, 2022

Filed

Aug 17, 2022

To disclose

15 days

Affected

1,316state residents only

Linked

11 filings

Confidence

65%

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. notified customers that its third-party vendor, Freestyle Solutions, experienced a data breach involving malware on the server hosting ShopRuger.com. The malware, active from Sept 2020 to Feb 2022, captured customer payment card information and personal details. Verizon was engaged for investigation. Identity theft protection services were offered.

Incident timeline

undetected · 683 days
discovery → filing · 15 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Aug 2, 2022

Discovered

Aug 17, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 11 filings about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of FreeStyle Solutions supply-chain incident (2022) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 15d gap

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Aug 2 (DE), last Aug 19 (NH) — a 17-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.