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The E.W. Scripps Company
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Full breach record for The E.W. Scripps Company →The E. W. Scripps Company disclosed a data breach affecting users of spellingbee.com. On January 12, 2022, an unknown party exploited a vulnerability in a corporate administrative website to obtain user usernames and passwords. The company fixed the vulnerability, engaged a forensic firm, notified law enforcement, and disabled affected passwords. The incident was reported to the California Attorney General's office on February 15, 2022.
California clockDiscovered Jan 13, 2022 → Notified Feb 15, 202233d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_86373725c6b40770Maine State AGfiled 2022-02-16Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-550981
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 16, 2022
- Raw hash
- 4218a60a07a494d9128a1e8d126df5975d5589f97d4bff8e2dba43d399209151
Reporting entity
- Name
- The E.W. Scripps Companynorm: the ew scripps
- Domain
- scripps.com
Victim entity
- Name
- The E.W. Scripps Companynorm: the ew scripps
- Domain
- scripps.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 13, 2022
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 15, 2022
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- CREDENTIALS
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(34 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 33d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Jan 13, 2022→ Notified: Feb 15, 202233d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.