HackingProfessional ServicesTechnologyProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsFinancial accountLowContained

Butler Brothers Supply Division

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 16, 2023

Filed

Dec 6, 2023

To disclose

20 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Butler Brothers Supply Division →

Butler Brothers Supply Division notified customers of a data breach involving its third-party e-commerce provider, SignatureIT Ltd. On November 16, 2023, SignatureIT detected unusual activity and a suspicious email, identifying the Confluence collaboration platform as the probable entry point. Personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers, company names, VAT numbers, ERP account numbers, and passwords may have been accessed. Butler Brothers' own systems were unaffected. Regulators including the FBI, CISA, and EU authorities were notified. Customers are advised to change passwords and monitor accounts.

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Vermont clock✓ VT AG ≤14 bday20 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 days

Nov 16, 2023

Discovered

Dec 6, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of SignatureIT Ltd. supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (2)

Leak Sitetoufanbd_44c40da928cb30e42023-12-19 · +13dVerified by operator
Leak Sitetoufanbd_f29f5eb8a01d61c82023-12-19 · +13dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_d236eb6f2a18ce7e2023-12-14 · +8dVerified

Name: Butler Brothers Supply Division
norm: butler brothers supply division
Domain: butlerbros.com

Name: Butler Brothers Supply Division
norm: butler brothers supply division
Domain: butlerbros.com
Industry: Professional ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Nov 16, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 6, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)CredentialsFinancial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the U.S. Federal Bureau of InvestigationNotified the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure ActNotified applicable U.S. state agenciesNotified the E.U. under the General Data Protection Regulation
Third party: via SignatureIT Ltd.
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified relevant regulators including the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Notified applicable U.S. state agencies and the E.U. under the General Data Protection Regulation
Working diligently to restore a secure e-commerce platform
Monitoring this incident and its effect on our customer community
Working with law enforcement agencies as may be needed in their investigation of the breach
Changes made: Recommended customers change their password for any account in which they used the same or similar password which they used for the SignatureIT e-commerce platform
Recommended customers monitor their online accounts and review credit reports for suspicious activity
Recommended customers contact credit bureaus to place a fraud alert on their accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG ≤14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Vermont State AGDec 6 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing Dec 6 (VT), last Dec 14 (NH) — a 8-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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-12-06-butler-brothers-supply-division-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 6, 2023
Raw hash: 854789e5a4c1626647f879202f82192816209bd9959f93b391fe5cb8770a3f79

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (2)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityButler Brothers Supply Division

Victim entityButler Brothers Supply Division

Incidentdiscovered Nov 16, 2023

Stated responseNotified relevant regulators including the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

ComplianceVT AG ≤14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov