HackingHacking OtherSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumResolved

Great Fermentations

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 6, 2023

Filed

Jul 12, 2023

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected · nationwide

5,20731 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Great Fermentations →

BTCE Inc, doing business as Great Fermentations, reported a data breach affecting 31 Maine residents. The breach was attributed to a third-party vendor, CommerceV3, and involved an external system hack that occurred between November 24, 2021, and December 14, 2022. The breach was discovered on June 6, 2023. The compromised information includes names and financial account or credit/debit card numbers along with their security codes or PINs. Great Fermentations offered 12 months of credit monitoring services through Experian to the affected individuals.

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Maine clockDiscovered Jun 6, 2023 → Filed with AG Jul 12, 202336d ⏱ ME AG >30d5 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 559 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Nov 24, 2021

Begins

Jun 6, 2023

Discovered

Jul 12, 2023

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_546cb16b35bce7fe2023-07-12Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c99c1a08fe0a68c92023-07-17 · +5dVerified

Name: Great Fermentations
norm: great fermentations
Domain: greatfermentations.com

Name: Great Fermentations
norm: great fermentations
Domain: greatfermentations.com
Also named: BTCE Incdba oflegal entity
Great Fermentationsdba oftrade name

Discovered: Jun 6, 2023
Breach occurred: Nov 24, 2021 – Dec 14, 2022
Undetected for: 559 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 12, 2023
Affected individuals: 5,207state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Data elements: Financial account number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain

During the incident: Sent written notifications to affected individuals.
Changes made: Offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian.
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(36 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: ME AG >30d · 36d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
Maine
Discovered: Jun 6, 2023
→ Filed with AG: Jul 12, 2023
36d 30 days (soft) ME AG >30d

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
Maine	Discovered: Jun 6, 2023 → Filed with AG: Jul 12, 2023	36d	30 days (soft)	ME AG >30d

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGJul 12 · first

Maine State AGJul 12 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jul 12 (MT), last Jul 17 (NH) — a 5-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://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/49f43dab-140a-423b-ae94-24e5de5acc29.shtml
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 12, 2023
Raw hash: 3a2269f6466965c627ba0a4274e2c4220fe94d267b2867b38ca0aceeb1865b66

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGreat Fermentations

Victim entityGreat Fermentations

Incidentdiscovered Jun 6, 2023

Stated responseSent written notifications to affected individuals.

ComplianceME AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.maine.gov