MalwareRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
The Computer Merchant, Ltd.
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Full breach record for The Computer Merchant, Ltd. →The Computer Merchant, Ltd. notified consumers of a July 2024 cyberattack where an unauthorized party acquired personal information including names and Social Security numbers. The breach was discovered in January 2025 when data appeared publicly. The company wiped and restored systems, engaged forensic review, and offered 12 months of identity-theft protection. 433 Rhode Island residents were impacted.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday33 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident
A leak claim by play about this victim predates this filing by 417 days.View originating leak claim
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (2)
- bd_6d00600f90f10c7cLeak Siteplayfiled 2024-07-15(400d gap)Verified
- bd_29f325ee9c9bd6f7Leak Siteplayfiled 2024-06-28(417d gap)Candidate
Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_08dc2d6569d82510New Hampshire State AGfiled 2025-08-21(2d gap)Verified
- bd_2b56afa7cd461874California State AGfiled 2025-08-21(2d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-08-19-computer-merchant-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 19, 2025
- Raw hash
- 27e315229ec075a46a7d5f66b668857fd43eb1b2205171126e67e6dbaa61cff9
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Computer Merchant, Ltd.norm: the computer merchant
- Domain
- itstaffing.com
Victim entity
- Name
- The Computer Merchant, Ltd.norm: the computer merchant
- Domain
- itstaffing.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 1, 2025
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Aug 19, 2025
- Affected individuals
- 433
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 33 weeks(230 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bdayLeak >180d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.