MisuseRetail & ConsumerRetailPrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPIIFinancial accountLowContained

Direct Distributors, Inc

bd_08fb3de60b6ccf5d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 9, 2019

Filed

Feb 21, 2019

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

12state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Direct Distributors, Inc →

Direct Distributors, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of an insider threat incident discovered on January 9, 2019. An employee gained unauthorized access to customer payment card information and attempted to use 6 credit cards for online purchases. Approximately 12 New Hampshire residents were affected. The company contacted law enforcement, disabled the compromised account, and offered identity monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 43 days

Jan 9, 2019

Discovered

Feb 21, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_8e269d2951588ed22019-02-21Candidate

Name: Direct Distributors, Inc
norm: direct distributors

Name: Direct Distributors, Inc
norm: direct distributors
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Jan 9, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 21, 2019
Affected individuals: 12state-resident count only
Data types: PIIFinancial account
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Contacted local law enforcement
Took steps to identify anyone potentially affected
Disabling the account storing archived customer order forms
Reviewing and revising their document retention policies and procedures to further limit employee access to customer order information
Changes made: Reviewing and revising their document retention policies and procedures to further limit employee access to customer order information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(43 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGFeb 21 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/direct-distributors-20190221.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 21, 2019
Raw hash: 5a172eec6737c838405c0dc1dfc8fe11a9a8d847f866457d2c16cdb0f9e542e1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDirect Distributors, Inc

Victim entityDirect Distributors, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Jan 9, 2019

Stated responseContacted local law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov