Comparison Overview

Costco Wholesale

VS

Kohl's

Costco Wholesale

4401 4th Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98134, US
Last Update: 2025-12-09
Between 800 and 849

Costco Wholesale is a multibillion dollar global retailer with warehouse club operations in 11 countries. We are the recognized leader in our field, dedicated to quality in every area of our business and respected for our outstanding business ethics. Despite our large size and rapid international expansion, we continue to provide an atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. If you are an ambitious, energetic person who enjoys a fast-paced team environment filled with challenges and opportunities, you've come to the right place. Our successful employees are service-oriented with integrity and commitment toward a common goal of excellence. Costco offers great jobs, great pay, great benefits and a great place to work. Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Costco Follow us on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/Costco

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 77,546
Subsidiaries: 1
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
2
Attack type number
1

Kohl's

N56 W17000 Ridgewood Dr, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 53051, US
Last Update: 2025-12-09
Between 750 and 799

Kohl’s is a leading omnichannel retailer with more than 1,100 stores in 49 states. Kohl's business is built on a solid foundation of more than 60 million customers, an unmatched brand portfolio, industry-leading loyalty and Kohl's Card programs, a convenient and accessible nationwide store footprint, and large digital business on Kohls.com and the Kohl's mobile app.

NAICS: 43
NAICS Definition: Retail Trade
Employees: 51,881
Subsidiaries: 1
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Costco Wholesale
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
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Kohl's
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
Compliance Summary
Costco Wholesale
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Kohl's
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Costco Wholesale in 2025.

Incidents vs Retail Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Kohl's in 2025.

Incident History — Costco Wholesale (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Costco Wholesale cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Kohl's (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Kohl's cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Costco Wholesale
Incidents

Date Detected: 07/2015
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 6/2014
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog
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Kohl's
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

Costco Wholesale company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Kohl's company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Costco Wholesale company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Kohl's company has not reported any.

In the current year, Kohl's company and Costco Wholesale company have not reported any cyber incidents.

Neither Kohl's company nor Costco Wholesale company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Costco Wholesale company has disclosed at least one data breach, while the other Kohl's company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Kohl's company nor Costco Wholesale company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Costco Wholesale company nor Kohl's company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Costco Wholesale nor Kohl's holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Both Kohl's company and Costco Wholesale company have a similar number of subsidiaries worldwide.

Costco Wholesale company employs more people globally than Kohl's company, reflecting its scale as a Retail.

Neither Costco Wholesale nor Kohl's holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Costco Wholesale nor Kohl's holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Costco Wholesale nor Kohl's holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Costco Wholesale nor Kohl's holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Costco Wholesale nor Kohl's holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Costco Wholesale nor Kohl's holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

FreePBX Endpoint Manager is a module for managing telephony endpoints in FreePBX systems. Versions prior to 16.0.96 and 17.0.1 through 17.0.9 have a weak default password. By default, this is a 6 digit numeric value which can be brute forced. (This is the app_password parameter). Depending on local configuration, this password could be the extension, voicemail, user manager, DPMA or EPM phone admin password. This issue is fixed in versions 16.0.96 and 17.0.10.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 6.9
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

Neuron is a PHP framework for creating and orchestrating AI Agents. In versions 2.8.11 and below, the MySQLWriteTool executes arbitrary SQL provided by the caller using PDO::prepare() + execute() without semantic restrictions. This is consistent with the name (“write tool”), but in an LLM/agent context it becomes a high-risk capability: prompt injection or indirect prompt manipulation can cause execution of destructive queries such as DROP TABLE, TRUNCATE, DELETE, ALTER, or privilege-related statements (subject to DB permissions). Deployments that expose an agent with MySQLWriteTool enabled to untrusted input and/or run the tool with a DB user that has broad privileges are impacted. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.12.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 9.4
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Description

Neuron is a PHP framework for creating and orchestrating AI Agents. Versions 2.8.11 and below use MySQLSelectTool, which is vulnerable to Read-Only Bypass. MySQLSelectTool is intended to be a read-only SQL tool (e.g., for LLM agent querying, however, validation based on the first keyword (e.g., SELECT) and a forbidden-keyword list does not block file-writing constructs such as INTO OUTFILE / INTO DUMPFILE. As a result, an attacker who can influence the tool input (e.g., via prompt injection through a public agent endpoint) may write arbitrary files to the DB server if the MySQL/MariaDB account has the FILE privilege and server configuration permits writes to a useful location (e.g., a web-accessible directory). This issue is fixed in version 2.8.12.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.2
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Description

Okta Java Management SDK facilitates interactions with the Okta management API. In versions 11.0.0 through 20.0.0, race conditions may arise from concurrent requests using the ApiClient class. This could cause a status code or response header from one request’s response to influence another request’s response. This issue is fixed in version 20.0.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.4
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Description

The Auth0 Next.js SDK is a library for implementing user authentication in Next.js applications. When using versions 4.11.0 through 4.11.2 and 4.12.0, simultaneous requests on the same client may result in improper lookups in the TokenRequestCache for the request results. This issue is fixed in versions 4.11.2 and 4.12.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.4
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N