HackingTechnologyRetail & ConsumerInformationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

ALM MEDIA, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 28, 2018

Filed

Jan 23, 2019

To disclose

26 days

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for ALM MEDIA, LLC →2 incidents on file

ALM Media, LLC notified NH AG of a cyber-attack on e-commerce sites where unauthorized JavaScript code collected payment card details (account number, CVV2) and PII (name, address, phone) from July 7 to Dec 24, 2018. ALM discovered the incident on Dec 28, 2018, and notified 2 NH residents starting Jan 23, 2019, offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 174 days

discovery → filing · 26 days

Jul 7, 2018

Begins

Dec 28, 2018

Discovered

Jan 23, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_21788ec70ccc02b92019-01-23Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_ac9106da2838e0092019-01-23Verified

Name: ALM MEDIA, LLC
norm: alm media

Name: ALM MEDIA, LLC
norm: alm media
Industry: TechnologyllmRetail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Dec 28, 2018
Breach occurred: Jul 7, 2018 – Dec 24, 2018
Undetected for: 174 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 23, 2019
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1074 Data StagedT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Engaged third-party cybersecurity experts to assist with this analysis
Disabled the checkout feature of the affected sites
Removed the unauthorized code
Directed customers to purchase products by phone
Changes made: Taken steps in response to this incident to better withstand these types of cyber-attacks on our e-commerce platform in the future
Offering one complimentary year of enrollment in TransUnion's myTrueldentity Credit Monitoring Service
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 days(26 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGJan 23 · first

Massachusetts State AGJan 23 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 23 · 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/alm-media-20190123.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 23, 2019
Raw hash: 8259f356d4d25d166b110084fc622283dc5ecf1e3195d7ae13f806db8ad0bdff

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityALM MEDIA, LLC

Victim entityALM MEDIA, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Dec 28, 2018

Stated responseEngaged third-party cybersecurity experts to assist with this analysis

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov