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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, 2021 → Filed 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 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up 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.