DisclosureLens
HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

L'OCCITANE, INC.

bd_fbc54d4a76441ae2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 25, 2018

Filed

Jun 21, 2018

To disclose

27 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%
All records for L'OCCITANE, INC. →

Account takeover notice

L'OCCITANE, INC. notified customers of unauthorized access to their accounts. The filing says: “On May 25, 2018, L'Occitane discovered that unknown persons were attempting to gain unauthorized access to L'Occitane customer accounts on its U.S. website. L' Occitane immediately began an investigation and learned that these unknown persons appeared to be using account credentials , such as user logins and passwords , that were obtained from an unknown source in the hope that they might match the account credentials of L'Occitane's U.S. customers.”

L'Occitane, Inc. notified the NH AG of a credential stuffing attack on its US e-commerce site. Discovered May 25, 2018, affecting approx. 1 NH resident. Attackers used stolen credentials to access accounts, potentially altering PII (name, address, DOB) and making fraudulent purchases using stored payment info. Actual card numbers were not exposed. L'Occitane disabled stored cards, reset passwords, and notified customers.

Incident timeline

undetected · 24 days
discovery → filing · 27 days

May 1, 2018

Begins

May 25, 2018

Discovered

Jun 21, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGJun 21 · first
New Hampshire State AGJun 21 · first · this page

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.