PhysicalRetailPIIFinancial accountLowContained

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS, INC.

bd_65983531ba75c021 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 2, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS, INC. →2 incidents on file

Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. experienced criminal tampering with 63 PIN pad devices across its US retail stores. American Express, the card issuer, notified affected cardholders that names, account numbers, and expiration dates may have been accessed. The incident was contained by September 14, 2012, when all affected devices were powered down. No Social Security numbers were impacted.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Nov 2, 2012

Filed

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Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Name: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
norm: american express travel related
Domain: americanexpress.com

Name: BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS, INC.
norm: barnes noble booksellers
Industry: retail_consumer

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIFinancial account
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Placed additional fraud monitoring on your Card
Contact you if you suspect any unusual activity
Offer Identity Theft Assistance
Provide contact information for the major credit bureaus
Changes made: Every PIN pad device from every Barnes & Noble store in the U.S. was powered down and disconnected by September 14, 2012
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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-36891
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Filed at: Nov 2, 2012
Raw hash: 2b4ed5897e87a49546ed4894a4d7f33a2f45e6a48cf002b707e353d9b832206c

Reporting entityAMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.

Victim entityBARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS, INC.

IncidentUnknown

Stated responsePlaced additional fraud monitoring on your Card

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov