HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData DestroyedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jun 14, 2016

Filed

Jul 14, 2016

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC. →2 incidents on file

Project Management Institute (PMI) notified customers that its vendor, Comnet Marketing Group, Inc., suffered an intrusion on April 23-24, 2016. An unauthorized user gained administrative access and deleted data, potentially including PMI customer credit card information. PMI was informed on June 14, 2016. Affected data may include name, address, email, phone, credit card number, CVV, and expiration date. PMI terminated its relationship with Comnet and offered one year of credit monitoring via Equifax.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 52 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Apr 23, 2016

Begins

Jun 14, 2016

Discovered

Jul 14, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

13 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Comnet Marketing Group supply-chain incident (2016) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_55fb98f8838384452016-07-15 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_abfe226953e463df2016-07-13 · +1dVerified

Name: PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.
norm: project management institute

Name: PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.
norm: project management institute
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 14, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 23, 2016 – Apr 24, 2016
Undetected for: 52 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1485 Data Destruction
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Comnet Marketing Group, Inc.
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Referred matter to appropriate law enforcement
Hired Equifax to provide credit monitoring services
Terminated relationship with Comnet
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGJul 13 · first

California State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-62846
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 14, 2016
Raw hash: 8b24bf8ffadf4bc6c5519a5e1dcc9e9304ea835a303f84ae0ecabf1c337fc790

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.

Victim entityPROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 14, 2016

Stated responseReferred matter to appropriate law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov