MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowResolved

Real Estate Business Services, Inc.

bd_37d1d2afed190a7e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 7, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Real Estate Business Services, Inc. →

Real Estate Business Services, Inc. (REBS) disclosed that malware uploaded by an unauthorized third party was present in payment processing software for store.car.org between March 13, 2017, and May 15, 2017. The malware may have copied and transmitted personal information, including names, addresses, credit card numbers, expiration dates, and verification codes (CVC), to an unknown third party. REBS removed the malware, switched to PayPal for payment processing, and is offering one year of free credit monitoring via LifeLock to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

Mar 13, 2017

Begins

Jul 7, 2017

Filed

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

Name: Real Estate Business Services, Inc.
norm: real estate business

Name: Real Estate Business Services, Inc.
norm: real estate business
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Mar 13, 2017 – May 15, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 3, 2017
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Removed malware from systems
Changed payment processing systems to PayPal
Implemented additional security measures
Working with law enforcement
Providing optional credit monitoring services for the next year
Changes made: Changed payment processing systems to PayPal
Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence
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.

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/sb24-100138
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 7, 2017
Raw hash: 95d80c811b57e26ca0610c983b81bd4125dfaea96fe337f012257ab99beda874

Reporting entityReal Estate Business Services, Inc.

Victim entityReal Estate Business Services, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseRemoved malware from systems

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov