HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitTargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

TURNING POINT BRANDS, INC.

bd_55bad83477c549e2 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 23, 2020

Filed

Dec 21, 2020

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

29state residents only

Confidence

63%

Full breach record for TURNING POINT BRANDS, INC. →

Vaporfi (Turning Point Brands) notified customers of a data security incident where unauthorized access to the online checkout page occurred between Sept 14-23, 2020. Discovered Sept 23, 2020. Exposed PII and payment card data. Remediation included fixing the vulnerability and implementing MFA.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 9 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 89 days

Sep 14, 2020

Begins

Sep 23, 2020

Discovered

Dec 21, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed29 affectedView incident

Name: TURNING POINT BRANDS, INC.
norm: turning point brands

Name: TURNING POINT BRANDS, INC.
norm: turning point brands
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 23, 2020
Breach occurred: Sep 14, 2020 – Sep 23, 2020
Undetected for: 9 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 16, 2020
Affected individuals: 29state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Fixed the vulnerability
Audited our systems
Installed additional controls to further enhance our system’s security
Implemented multi-factor authentication for remote access to our system
Changes made: Implemented multi-factor authentication for remote access to our system
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(89 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/tpSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 21, 2020
Raw hash: 378a8893cdec5940f4862512b7e30ce10de24437c8cf6bed0d09173c8943bcb4

Reporting entityTURNING POINT BRANDS, INC.

Victim entityTURNING POINT BRANDS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 23, 2020

Stated responseFixed the vulnerability

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov