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State AGConfirmed6 filings · 6 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

Best Buy Co., Inc. — September 2017 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Apr 12, 2018 Apr 25, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

19,515

First → last filing

Apr 12, 2018 Apr 25, 2018

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_89d8a703b5f74147 · merged by human · confidence 100%

Part of the [24]7.ai supply-chain incident (2018)at least 5 organizations filed notifications naming this third party.
Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe a third-party compromise. Intrusion Sep 26, 2017–Oct 12, 2017, discovered Mar 1, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 42 days later. 19,515 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: PII, Financial account, Identity (basic), and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 13-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Apr 12, 2018. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
42days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
27days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
13days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

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