MalwareRetail & ConsumerRetailRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedFinancial accountFinancial credentialsLowActive

A.D. Starr

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

May 25, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

11state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for A.D. Starr →

A.D. Starr notified NH DOJ of a security incident impacting ~11 NH residents. Malicious software in third-party vendor Freestyle Solutions' payment processing system compromised credit card data (name, number, CVV, expiration) submitted on adstarr.com between Sept 18, 2020 and Feb 3, 2022. Vendor blocked malware, engaged forensic experts, notified card brands and law enforcement. A.D. Starr offered 1 year of credit monitoring via Experian.

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Incident timeline

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

May 25, 2022

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_4bc4159fc6772f062022-05-23 · +2dCandidate

Name: A.D. Starr
norm: ad starr
Domain: adstarr.com
Industry: Retail

Name: A.D. Starr
norm: ad starr
Domain: adstarr.com
Industry: Retail
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Sep 18, 2020 – Feb 3, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 23, 2022
Affected individuals: 11state-resident count only
Data types: Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1071 Application Layer Protocol
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Department of Justice
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Vendor blocked the malicious software
Vendor retained outside data security experts to conduct a forensic investigation
Vendor reported the incident to major card brands (VISA, MasterCard, etc.)
Vendor reported the incident to federal law enforcement authorities
A.D. Starr arranged with Experian to offer all noticed individuals a free year of active credit monitoring
A.D. Starr provided a detailed explanation of additional steps that potentially-affected individuals may consider taking
Payment processing functions of the A.D. Starr website have been subject to a thorough security review
Operations have resumed without issue
Changes made: Reviewing the security safeguards implemented for its website
Actively engaged with the vendor as the investigation comes to the close to make sure all findings are reviewed and any necessary additional security safeguards are implemented for the payment processing functions of the website
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGMay 23 · first

New Hampshire State AG+2d · this page

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/ad-starr-20220525.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 25, 2022
Raw hash: 730481e1b9082976003feb4a69b5a8c2e2ddb29cffcfb7c938f7f282fbab26f5

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityA.D. Starr

Victim entityA.D. Starr

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseVendor blocked the malicious software

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov