HackingFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Sony Card Marketing & Services Company

bd_9d3f2877ea2ad968 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 13, 2009

Filed

May 28, 2009

To disclose

15 days

Affected

16state residents only

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Sony Card Marketing & Services Company →

Sony Card Marketing & Services Company (CMSC) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on May 28, 2009, of a data security incident affecting 16 New Hampshire residents. Unauthorized copies of credit card numbers, names, and expiration dates were made between February 1, 2009, and April 30, 2009, and emailed to an external account. CMSC discovered the breach on May 13, 2009. No fraudulent use was indicated. Affected individuals were offered one year of complimentary credit monitoring via Debix.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 101 days

discovery → filing · 15 days

Feb 1, 2009

Begins

May 13, 2009

Discovered

May 28, 2009

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed16 affectedView incident

Name: Sony Card Marketing & Services Company
norm: sony card marketing

Name: Sony Card Marketing & Services Company
norm: sony card marketing

Discovered: May 13, 2009
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2009 – Apr 30, 2009
Undetected for: 101 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 1, 2009
Affected individuals: 16state-resident count only
Data types: Financial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: writing to inform you of a data security incident involving credit card information
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Conducted a thorough investigation of this incident
All relevant credit card companies have been notified
Sending written notification to all individuals whose credit card information was potentially compromised
Offering such individuals the opportunity to enroll in a credit monitoring service for one year without any cost to the individual
Changes made: Offering such individuals the opportunity to enroll in a credit monitoring service for one year without any cost to the individual
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 days(15 days from discovery to filing)
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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/sony-20090528.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 28, 2009
Raw hash: cc365443d4d91949273ac11abfbc1d75dbde1ddfd07d3829a8361c02289bcbc4

Reporting entitySony Card Marketing & Services Company

Victim entitySony Card Marketing & Services Company

Incidentdiscovered May 13, 2009

Stated responseConducted a thorough investigation of this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov