HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowActive

Empire Parent, LLC; Empire Auto Parts, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 29, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

235state residents only

Confidence

65%

ThePartsBin.com notified the NH Attorney General of a security breach affecting 235 NH residents. Unauthorized access to customer names and credit card info occurred between April 9 and June 12, 2012. The company added security, notified law enforcement and payment networks, and sent individual notices.

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Incident timeline

Apr 9, 2012

Begins

Jun 29, 2012

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed235 affectedView incident

Name: Empire Parent, LLC; Empire Auto Parts, LLC
norm: empire parent llc empire auto parts
Domain: thepartsbin.com

Name: Empire Parent, LLC; Empire Auto Parts, LLC
norm: empire parent llc empire auto parts
Domain: thepartsbin.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 9, 2012 – Jun 12, 2012
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2012
Affected individuals: 235state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Added extra security to ThePartsBin.com site and servers
Notified law enforcement
Informed the payment networks and credit reporting agencies
Changes made: Added extra security to ThePartsBin.com site and servers to prevent similar attacks from occurring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/thepartsbin-20120629.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2012
Raw hash: daedb747594e4fe9fec43a6c6221fc0d70336599d9b30792d5a60e8acb5eb515

Reporting entityEmpire Parent, LLC; Empire Auto Parts, LLC

Victim entityEmpire Parent, LLC; Empire Auto Parts, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseAdded extra security to ThePartsBin.com site and servers

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov