DisclosureLens
HackingInformationHacking OtherSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumResolved

PFU America

bd_55c849d81dd270b0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 27, 2021

Filed

Sep 17, 2021

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected · nationwide

4,87513 in this filing

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for PFU America

PFU America, Inc. experienced a data breach on November 30, 2020, which was discovered on July 27, 2021. The breach was a result of unauthorized access to a vendor's system, affecting 13 Maine residents. The compromised information includes names and financial account or credit/debit card numbers with their corresponding security codes or PINs. The company provided 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through IDX.

Maine clockDiscovered Jul 27, 2021Filed with AG Sep 17, 202152d ME AG >30d7 weeks discovery → filing
AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 239 days
discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 52 days

Nov 30, 2020

Begins

Jul 27, 2021

Discovered

Sep 17, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 6d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGSep 17 · first
Montana State AGSep 17 · first
California State AGSep 17 · first
New Hampshire State AGSep 17 · first
Maine State AGSep 17 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 17 (IN), last Sep 23 (MA) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.