HackingTechnologyInformationData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Canadian Standards Association

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 20, 2007

Filed

Jan 21, 2008

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Canadian Standards Association →2 incidents on file

CSA Group (Canadian Standards Association) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a security breach affecting its Learning Centre web server in Toronto. The breach, discovered on December 20, 2027, potentially exposed names, addresses, and encrypted credit card data of customers. Only one New Hampshire resident was identified. Notifications were mailed on January 14, 2008. Forensic specialists were engaged, and affected sites were taken offline.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

Dec 20, 2007

Discovered

Jan 21, 2008

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: CSA NYC
norm: csa nyc
Domain: csa-nyc.org

Name: Canadian Standards Association
norm: canadian standards
Domain: csagroup.org
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Dec 20, 2007
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 14, 2008
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Contacted all customers who may be affected by this breach
Mailed letters to Learning Centre online store customers on January 14, 2008
Taken the affected CSA websites off-line
Engaged computer forensics specialists
Changes made: Reconstructing websites to ensure security
Planning short and long term initiatives to improve the security of websites
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(32 days from discovery to filing)
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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/csa-group-20080121.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 21, 2008
Raw hash: 66ace47a56b582fd985074f7fab6b2ef506ec6b0b5a93cbdf247af80c290318c

Reporting entityCSA NYC

Victim entityCanadian Standards Association

Incidentdiscovered Dec 20, 2007

Stated responseContacted all customers who may be affected by this breach

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov