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HackingTechnologyInformationStolen CredentialsVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsLowContained

Zymo Research Corporation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 2, 2017

Filed

Aug 28, 2017

To disclose

26 days

Affected

41state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Zymo Research Corporation →

Zymo Research Corporation notified Montana residents of a network data breach. Unauthorized access occurred on or about March 15, 2017, when an actor placed code on the company's external cloud e-commerce network to access a customer database. The incident was discovered on August 2, 2017. Compromised data included names, addresses, emails, hashed passwords, and credit card details. Zymo engaged forensic investigators and provided one year of identity monitoring via Kroll.

Incident timeline

undetected · 140 days
discovery → filing · 26 days

Mar 15, 2017

Begins

Aug 2, 2017

Discovered

Aug 28, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGAug 21 · first
Massachusetts State AG+2d
California State AG+4d
Montana State AG+7d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 21 (NH), last Aug 28 (MT) — a 7-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.