HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsLowContained

Bulk Reef Supply

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 21, 2015

Filed

Feb 27, 2015

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

94state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Bulk Reef Supply →

Bulk Reef Supply, Inc. notified the NH Attorney General of a security breach affecting 94 NH residents. Unauthorized access occurred from July 30, 2014, to Jan 22, 2015. Compromised data included names, addresses, usernames, passwords, and credit card info. BRS retained forensic experts, secured the site, notified the FBI, and offered 1 year of Experian credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 175 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 37 days

Jul 30, 2014

Begins

Jan 21, 2015

Discovered

Feb 27, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_83c1f7e39a6d6af82015-02-27Candidate
South Carolina State AGbd_128a3b34181647a22015-03-04 · +5dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_1aa826d93d395fc72015-04-30 · +62dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_79b009f163621d2d2015-05-04 · +66dVerified

Name: Bulk Reef Supply
norm: bulk reef supply
Domain: bulkreefsupply.com

Name: Bulk Reef Supply
norm: bulk reef supply
Domain: bulkreefsupply.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 21, 2015
Breach occurred: Jul 30, 2014 – Jan 22, 2015
Undetected for: 175 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 17, 2015
Affected individuals: 94state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountCredentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Joseph Foster of New HampshireNotified the FBI
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Retained a forensic expert
Secured the site and information in question
Added additional protections to the locations of the personal information
Put monitoring measures in place
Notified the FBI and provided all the information about the incident
Arranged to have Experian protect affected individuals' identity for one (1) year at no cost
Changes made: Added additional protections to the locations of the personal information
Put monitoring measures in place to insure this attack has been stopped and will not occur in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(37 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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California State AGFeb 27 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 27 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+5d

New Hampshire State AG+62d

Massachusetts State AG+66d

Pattern: first filing Feb 27 (CA), last May 4 (MA) — a 66-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/bulk-reef-supply-20150227.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 27, 2015
Raw hash: 50874d97ef415bfefbc99d9e23ccea46d19a079f150e059f5d21913db0a1670d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBulk Reef Supply

Victim entityBulk Reef Supply

Incidentdiscovered Jan 21, 2015

Stated responseRetained a forensic expert

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov