HackingTechnologyInformationCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDCredentialsMediumContained

geekface™

bd_ab3ca7fa13ef85cc · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 26, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for geekface™ →

On August 5, 2014, an intruder illegally gained access to a Geekface LLC server. The breach exposed personal information including names, addresses, birth dates, usernames, passwords, and social security numbers for some users, and email addresses, usernames, and passwords for others. Geekface LLC conducted a review, implemented additional security measures, and requested users reset passwords.

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Incident timeline

Aug 5, 2014

Begins

Aug 26, 2014

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

Massachusetts State AGbd_2d87c7a9b035b6032014-08-28 · +2dVerified

Name: geekface™
norm: geekface
Domain: geekface.com

Name: geekface™
norm: geekface
Domain: geekface.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Aug 5, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDCredentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Working closely with law enforcement

During the incident: Conducted a thorough review of the potentially affected records/databases in order to ensure that their full integrity has been restored
Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence of such an attack
Working closely with law enforcement to ensure the incident is properly addressed
Requesting that all users reset their password on http://www.hatchwise.com
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence of such an attack
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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California State AGAug 26 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-46353
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 26, 2014
Raw hash: bf003d074b96e1e753be3478a3a54af477fb4831f4df50812bcab29d9fcf136c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitygeekface™

Victim entitygeekface™

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseConducted a thorough review of the potentially affected records/databases in order to ensure that their full integrity has been restored

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov