HackingVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTLowContained
Professional Publications
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Full breach record for Professional Publications →Professional Publications, Inc. (PPI) disclosed a data breach affecting customers who made transactions on ppi2pass.com between March 9 and September 3, 2017. A hacker implemented malicious code to access personal information, including names, addresses, and credit card details (including CVV). PPI engaged forensic investigators and law enforcement, notifying affected individuals in October 2018 and offering two years of credit monitoring.
California clockDiscovered Sep 19, 2018 → Notified Oct 1, 201812d ✓ CA 60-day OK7 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-141573
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 6, 2018
- Raw hash
- dc2c2ea28a75a64a4693ebc734042e5e35ed310151e53de71d438b20a34da1e4
Reporting entity
- Name
- Professional Publicationsnorm: professional publications
Victim entity
- Name
- Professional Publicationsnorm: professional publications
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 19, 2018
- Materiality determined
- Nov 7, 2018
- Notification sent
- Oct 1, 2018
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 12d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Sep 19, 2018→ Notified: Oct 1, 201812d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.