DisclosureLens
HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailStolen CredentialsVulnerability ExploitTargetedData ExfiltratedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountCredentialsLowContained

The Fruitful Yield, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 17, 2016

Filed

Apr 20, 2016

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

15state residents only

Confidence

65%

Fruitful Yield, Inc. notified customers of a data breach affecting its e-commerce sites (FruitfulYield.com, NOW-2-U.com, VitaminExperts.com). Unauthorized access occurred between Jan 7 and Mar 21, 2016. Exposed data included names, addresses, credit card details (including CVV), and usernames/passwords. The company discovered the incident on March 17, 2016, via a service provider.

Incident timeline

undetected · 70 days
discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 34 days

Jan 7, 2016

Begins

Mar 17, 2016

Discovered

Apr 20, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed15 affectedView incident

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.