Social EngineeringPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTCREDENTIALSMediumContained
The Associated Press Stylebook
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Full breach record for The Associated Press Stylebook →The Associated Press Stylebook notified consumers of a data breach affecting its old website, maintained by third-party provider Stylebooks.com, Inc. Between July 16-22, 2023, an unauthorized third party accessed customer personal information (names, addresses, User IDs, and potentially SSNs/Tax IDs) after customers received phishing emails. The incident was discovered on July 20, 2023. The company engaged forensic investigators, took the old site offline, forced password resets, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.
Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday6 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-09-01-associated-press-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 1, 2023
- Raw hash
- 737c0e82586002a3564024b431046c434b01e58d0425555cf1fe002e8fb370ea
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Associated Press Stylebooknorm: the associated press stylebook
Victim entity
- Name
- The Associated Press Stylebooknorm: the associated press stylebook
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 20, 2023
- Materiality determined
- Sep 1, 2023
- Notification sent
- Jul 27, 2023
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTCREDENTIALS
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Third party
- via Stylebooks.com, Inc.
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(43 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >14 bday
- 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.