HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailSkimmerCapture App DataCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowResolved

BarristerBooks, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 11, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

83%

Full breach record for BarristerBooks, Inc. →

BarristerBooks, Inc., a family-owned online law book retailer, discovered that an unknown party obtained payment card information from customers who made purchases on barristerbooks.com, lawbooks.com, or lawbooksforless.com between July 7, 2020 and September 11, 2020. Exposed data included cardholder names, account numbers, expiration dates, and CVVs. The company engaged forensic investigators, notified the FBI, and migrated payment processing to PayPal.

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Incident timeline

Jul 7, 2020

Begins

Nov 11, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_1c8ef3f15c9b2ca72020-11-11Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_329c6947f0c565692020-11-11Verified
Maine State AGbd_bc43318e83e33d622020-11-11Candidate
Montana State AGbd_cf8853861fdd9a5c2020-11-11Verified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_a68ed6a2fbe096722020-11-12 · +1dVerified

Name: BarristerBooks, Inc.
norm: barristerbooks
Domain: barristerbooks.com

Name: BarristerBooks, Inc.
norm: barristerbooks
Domain: barristerbooks.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jul 7, 2020 – Sep 11, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 10, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1056 Input CaptureT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the incident
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Immediately launched an investigation and engaged a digital forensics firm to assist
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the incident and will provide law enforcement whatever assistance is needed
Moved card payment processing outside of our website so that order payments are processed directly on PayPal
Immediately began the process of notifying any customer who may have been affected
Changes made: Adopted even more stringent security measures to prevent similar incidents in the future
Moved card payment processing outside of our website so that order payments are processed directly on PayPal
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Indiana State AGNov 11 · first

Massachusetts State AGNov 11 · first

Maine State AGNov 11 · first

Montana State AGNov 11 · first

California State AGNov 11 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-196050
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 11, 2020
Raw hash: 66612c0e3c52e658b25b39cd69de2a882bdddb976f21acdb471c1c35e6961715

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBarristerBooks, Inc.

Victim entityBarristerBooks, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImmediately launched an investigation and engaged a digital forensics firm to assist

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov