DisclosureLens
MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedPCIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsIdentity (basic)LowContained

Ballistic Products, Inc.

bd_0a9e5025b2e7d8d8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 1, 2022

Filed

Sep 9, 2022

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Ballistic Products, Inc.

Ballistic Products, Inc. notified customers of a data breach involving a third-party payment processing vendor. Malware on the vendor's servers captured checkout information (names, payment card numbers, security codes, billing addresses) for transactions between September 18, 2020, and February 3, 2022. The vendor discovered the malware in early February 2022 after notification from another customer. The incident was contained, and identity protection services were offered to affected individuals.

California clockDiscovered Feb 1, 2022Notified Sep 1, 2022212d CA 60-day late31 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 501 days
discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 220 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Feb 1, 2022

Discovered

Sep 9, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+23 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 12d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Sep 1 (IN), last Sep 21 (MA) — a 20-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.