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HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

Ballistic Products, Inc.

bd_aaecbad195251dcd · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2022

Filed

Sep 13, 2022

To disclose

28 weeks

Affected · nationwide

40,624221 in this filing

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

75%
Full breach record for Ballistic Products, Inc.

Ballistic Products, Inc. disclosed a data breach affecting 221 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred on September 18, 2020, and was discovered on March 1, 2022, involved an external system hack. The compromised information includes names and financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers with their security codes. The company notified affected individuals on September 1, 2022, and offered 12 months of identity theft protection services through IDX.

Maine clockDiscovered Mar 1, 2022Filed with AG Sep 13, 2022196d ME AG >90d28 weeks discovery → filing
AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 529 days
discovery → filing · 28 weeks / 196 days

Sep 18, 2020

Begins

Mar 1, 2022

Discovered

Sep 13, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+20 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 12d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

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Pattern: first filing Sep 1 (IN), last Sep 21 (MA) — a 20-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.