HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Art of Tea

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 3, 2014

Filed

Dec 31, 2014

To disclose

28 days

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Art of Tea →2 incidents on file

Art of Tea notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a cyberattack where criminals hacked its website to access payment card data (names, emails, billing addresses, credit card numbers, CVVs, expiration dates) for purchases made between Oct 16 and Nov 28, 2014. The incident affected 5 NH residents. Notices were mailed on Jan 5, 2015, offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 48 days

discovery → filing · 28 days

Oct 16, 2014

Begins

Dec 3, 2014

Discovered

Dec 31, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5 affectedView incident

Name: Art of Tea
norm: art of tea
Domain: artoftea.com

Name: Art of Tea
norm: art of tea
Domain: artoftea.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Dec 3, 2014
Breach occurred: Oct 16, 2014 – Nov 28, 2014
Undetected for: 48 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 5, 2015
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Working individually and in collaboration with the managed service provider and content providers to secure all future transactions on our website
Updating and enhancing its website security tools, security policies, procedures and practices
Arranged for Experian to provide credit monitoring at no cost
Changes made: Updating and enhancing its website security tools, security policies, procedures and practices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/art-of-tea-20141231.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 31, 2014
Raw hash: 441027aefc758dceef8fa67673f9074e779cbc4740cd266170aaa21e0f6ae627

Reporting entityArt of Tea

Victim entityArt of Tea

Incidentdiscovered Dec 3, 2014

Stated responseWorking individually and in collaboration with the managed service provider and content providers to secure all future transactions on our website

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov