HackingStolen CredentialsDelayed DiscoveryData ExfiltratedCREDENTIALSIDENTITY_BASICHighContained
Praetorian
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Full breach record for Praetorian →Praetian Digital, operator of PoliceOne.com, disclosed a 2015 security incident affecting approximately 715,000 forum users. Unauthorized access resulted in the acquisition of email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, and MD-5 hashed/salted passwords. The incident was discovered in February 2017. The company took down the forums, mandated password resets, and conducted a security review. No central database was compromised.
California clockDiscovered Feb 3, 2017 → Notified Feb 7, 20174d ✓ 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.Confirmed715,000 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-67050
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 21, 2017
- Raw hash
- 04abf135503066dea766f8f5125e43d9aa94b868b93f3dd57f536153b959ec72
Reporting entity
- Name
- Praetoriannorm: praetorian
- Domain
- praetorian.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Praetoriannorm: praetorian
- Domain
- praetorian.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 3, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 7, 2017
- Affected individuals
- 715,000
- Data types
- CREDENTIALSIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 7 weeks(46 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 4d
- 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: Feb 3, 2017→ Notified: Feb 7, 20174d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.