HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailSkimmerTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountPCILowContained

Special Buys Clothing Inc.

bd_7f2e9177a73a8535 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 1, 2022

Filed

Dec 13, 2022

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

15state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Special Buys Clothing Inc. →

Special Buys Clothing Inc. (dba Bargain Balloons) disclosed a security incident at BargainBalloons.com where a malicious skimmer code was inserted between Sept 27 and Nov 7, 2022. The code captured customer names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and credit card info. The company engaged forensic experts, removed the code, enhanced security, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 73 days

Sep 27, 2022

Begins

Oct 1, 2022

Discovered

Dec 13, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_37c987a590a024302022-12-12 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_d002a3fd6a6956212022-12-12 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_196e44d4a451a3462022-12-09 · +4dVerified
Maine State AGbd_92d668249e35cf792022-12-09 · +4dCandidate

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 48d gap

California State AGbd_d39d671c575ae4782022-12-09 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_e92b5897889400622023-01-19 · +37dVerified
Maine State AGbd_47ae83101c7c238c2023-01-20 · +38dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_b7879b167a37cbd02023-01-30 · +48dVerified

Name: Special Buys Clothing Inc.
norm: special buys clothing
Domain: bargainballoons.com

Name: Special Buys Clothing Inc.
norm: special buys clothing
Domain: bargainballoons.com
Also named: Special Buys Clothing Inc.dba oflegal entity
Bargain Balloonsdba oftrade name
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 27, 2022 – Nov 7, 2022
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 1, 2022
Affected individuals: 15state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountPCI
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage ObjectT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified applicable privacy commissionersNotified payment gatewaysNotified local police
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Hired a leading firm of forensic IT experts
Secured the website
Removed the malicious code
Performed a thorough scan of our online systems
Worked with cybersecurity specialists to determine the nature and gravity of the incident
Implemented additional measures and enhanced security tools
Notified applicable privacy commissioners, payment gateways and local police
Changes made: Implemented additional measures and enhanced security tools to further protect information on our website and our IT systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(73 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 6 states

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Massachusetts State AGDec 9 · first

Maine State AGDec 9 · first

California State AGDec 9 · first

Indiana State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+3d

Montana State AG+4d · this page

California State AG+41d

Maine State AG+42d

New Hampshire State AG+52d

Pattern: first filing Dec 9 (MA), last Jan 30 (NH) — a 52-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-773.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 13, 2022
Raw hash: b6087783f5ab6b577eb26c66e62f29328ca7dc3fe2e421e27e343d157aa36262

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySpecial Buys Clothing Inc.

Victim entitySpecial Buys Clothing Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2022

Stated responseHired a leading firm of forensic IT experts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov