HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial credentialsPIILowContained

Professional Publications Inc

bd_98eaf9a6002889bd · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 19, 2018

Filed

Oct 27, 2018

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Professional Publications Inc →2 incidents on file

Professional Publications notified Montana AG of a breach affecting 7 residents. Malicious code on ppi2pass.com accessed PII and financial data (including CVV) for transactions between March-April 2017. Incident discovered Sept 2018. Notifications sent Oct 4, 2018, including credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 559 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 38 days

Mar 9, 2017

Begins

Sep 19, 2018

Discovered

Oct 27, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_3a33ba3de7b9ea2b2018-11-06 · +10dVerified

Name: Professional Publications Inc
norm: professional publications
Domain: ppi2pass.com

Name: Professional Publications Inc
norm: professional publications
Domain: ppi2pass.com
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 19, 2018
Breach occurred: Mar 9, 2017 – Apr 5, 2017
Undetected for: 559 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 4, 2018
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial credentialsPII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Investigating the incident
Eliminating and preventing any further unauthorized access
Enhancing our security and monitoring measures
Brought in a leading third-party forensics firm
Contacted law enforcement
Started working immediately to notify potentially impacted customers
Arranging for free credit monitoring
Changes made: Enhancing our security and monitoring measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(38 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGOct 27 · first · this page

California State AG+10d

Pattern: first filing Oct 27 (MT), last Nov 6 (CA) — a 10-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/Professional-Publications-2.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 27, 2018
Raw hash: 4d48184e6484038da647cf108feb3433aef92d0a9657db0c173ab054699713c1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityProfessional Publications Inc

Victim entityProfessional Publications Inc

Incidentdiscovered Sep 19, 2018

Stated responseInvestigating the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov