HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesSkimmerTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsLowContained

American Payroll Association

bd_165da878868f4db1 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 13, 2020

Filed

Sep 1, 2020

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

15state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for American Payroll Association →

American Payroll Association (APA) disclosed a skimming cyberattack discovered on July 13, 2020. Unauthorized individuals installed a skimmer on APA's login and checkout pages via a CMS vulnerability, accessing credentials, payment card data, and PII starting May 13, 2020. APA patched the CMS, installed antivirus, reset passwords, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 60 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 50 days

May 13, 2020

Begins

Jul 13, 2020

Discovered

Sep 1, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

11 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_24ecf0818ebd10892020-09-01Verified
Washington State AGbd_1cc2355a06929eff2020-08-19 · +13dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_add07444061ddcc32020-01-01 · +244dCandidate

Name: American Payroll Association
norm: american payroll
Domain: americanpayroll.org

Name: American Payroll Association
norm: american payroll
Domain: americanpayroll.org
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 13, 2020
Breach occurred: May 13, 2020
Undetected for: 60 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 31, 2020
Affected individuals: 15state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountCredentials
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1056 Input Capture
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Installed the latest security patches from our content management system
Reviewed all code changes made to the APA website since January
Installed additional antivirus software on our servers
Increased the frequency of security patch implementation
Required all affected users to reset their password
Offering 12 months of free credit monitoring and $1,000,000 in identity theft insurance through Equifax
Changes made: Installed the latest security patches from our content management system
Installed additional antivirus software on our servers
Increased the frequency of security patch implementation
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(50 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Washington State AG+231d

New Hampshire State AG+244d

Montana State AG+244d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Sep 1 (MT) — a 244-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/apa-breach-letter.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 1, 2020
Raw hash: 9f056f517817b8a26c222b4d6dc54ca2a252447f824b44e85f657c5b024f8ba7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAmerican Payroll Association

Victim entityAmerican Payroll Association

Incidentdiscovered Jul 13, 2020

Stated responseInstalled the latest security patches from our content management system

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov