HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

Letter Arts Book Club, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 7, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

21state residents only

Confidence

66%

Letter Arts Book Club, Inc. (d/b/a John Neal Books) notified customers that their third-party e-commerce provider, CommerceV3, was breached. Unauthorized access occurred between Nov 24, 2021 and Dec 14, 2022. Compromised data included names, addresses, email, and payment card details (number, CVV, expiry). The company migrated to a new platform in Feb 2023.

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Incident timeline

Nov 24, 2021

Begins

Jul 7, 2023

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed21 affectedView incident

Name: Letter Arts Book Club, Inc.
norm: letter arts book club
Domain: johnnealbooks.com

Name: Letter Arts Book Club, Inc.
norm: letter arts book club
Domain: johnnealbooks.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Nov 24, 2021 – Dec 14, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 21state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
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: Switched to a different, highly regarded company for webhosting and e-commerce
Moved the website to a different e-commerce platform, Big Commerce
Changes made: Moved the website to a different e-commerce platform, Big Commerce, which is highly regarded. It is a much bigger company and has more robust security.
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-405.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 7, 2023
Raw hash: 868c5eaa56f60acfb637efd7fbba3011621a0b9d608ce7cf383dec4202ddbbd4

Reporting entityLetter Arts Book Club, Inc.

Victim entityLetter Arts Book Club, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSwitched to a different, highly regarded company for webhosting and e-commerce

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov