HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Pacific Press Publishing Association

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 1, 2019

Filed

May 3, 2020

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Pacific Press Publishing Association →

Pacific Press Publishing Association disclosed that unauthorized code was discovered on its adventistbookcenter.com website in late October 2019, potentially present since June 2019. The code may have captured customer data including names, addresses, email, credit card numbers, and security codes. The company implemented additional security measures and offered one year of identity monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 1, 2019 → Notified Apr 24, 2020206d ✗ CA 60-day late31 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 122 days

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 215 days

Jun 1, 2019

Begins

Oct 1, 2019

Discovered

May 3, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+23 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_d8717b57374f8fce2020-05-04 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_e3e105feb18c623c2020-05-05 · +2dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_94dfd287810acebd2020-04-27 · +6dVerified
Montana State AGbd_e4fc4831900a018e2020-06-09 · +37dVerified

Name: Pacific Press Publishing Association
norm: pacific press publishing
Domain: adventistbookcenter.com

Name: Pacific Press Publishing Association
norm: pacific press publishing
Domain: adventistbookcenter.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2019
Breach occurred: Jun 1, 2019 – Oct 31, 2019
Undetected for: 122 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 24, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Conducted a thorough review of the potentially affected website
Working closely with major credit card suppliers and law enforcement
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence of such an attack
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(215 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 206d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Oct 1, 2019
→ Notified: Apr 24, 2020
206d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 1, 2019 → Notified: Apr 24, 2020	206d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGApr 27 · first

California State AG+6d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

New Hampshire State AG+8d

Montana State AG+43d

Pattern: first filing Apr 27 (IN), last Jun 9 (MT) — a 43-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-189687
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 3, 2020
Raw hash: 1e39f63fd3c60755ea3b3f5dd8c258c36b5d13dd72f2be15fa3cea3551fa7b78

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPacific Press Publishing Association

Victim entityPacific Press Publishing Association

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2019

Stated responseConducted a thorough review of the potentially affected website

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov