AccidentalOtherMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumResolved

Curse, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 11, 2016

Filed

May 11, 2016

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Curse, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Curse, Inc. inadvertently emailed a 1099-MISC tax form containing PII and financial data to an unintended recipient on April 11, 2016. The company discovered the error the same day, contacted the recipient, and provided 12 months of identity protection services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Apr 11, 2016

Begins

Apr 11, 2016

Discovered

May 11, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Curse, Inc.
norm: curse
Domain: curse.com

Name: Curse, Inc.
norm: curse
Domain: curse.com
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Apr 11, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 11, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 11, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Unused/Unknown Cloud Storage

During the incident: Contacted the individual who inadvertently received the tax form
Changed data control processes
Retained AllClear ID to provide 12 months of identity protection services
Changes made: Changed data control processes to ensure that this does not happen again
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.

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/Curse.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 11, 2016
Raw hash: f825ad3f3012cf47bb09a7bd48fb68411014b45127ba50f1a6551fc4dd4ab16e

Reporting entityCurse, Inc.

Victim entityCurse, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 11, 2016

Stated responseContacted the individual who inadvertently received the tax form

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov