Social EngineeringRetail & ConsumerRetailPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedCredentialsIdentity (basic)LowActive

Quixtar Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 27, 2008

Filed

Jun 11, 2008

To disclose

15 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Quixtar Inc. →

Quixtar Inc. notified New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte of a security incident discovered on May 27, 2008. Fraudsters accessed Independent Business Owner (IBO) accounts using credentials obtained from an external website (phishing). The intruders changed bank account details to divert bonus payments. Quixtar scrambled passwords on June 4, 2008, and sent notification letters on June 11, 2008. No SSN, credit card, or bank account numbers were accessed. Quixtar cooperated with the FBI. The investigation was active as of the filing date.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 days

May 27, 2008

Discovered

Jun 11, 2008

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7beef4b8e5ca545f2008-06-16 · +5dVerified

Name: Quixtar Inc.
norm: quixtar

Name: Quixtar Inc.
norm: quixtar
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: May 27, 2008
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 11, 2008
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: CredentialsIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI about the incident and is cooperating in the FBI's investigation
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Provided information to the FBI about the incident and is cooperating in the FBI's investigation
Scrambled passwords on June 4, 2008, effectively barring access by the intruder
Sent notification letters to Quixtar.com users whose accounts are believed to have been fraudulently accessed
Changes made: Issuing paper checks for any IBO whose banking deposit information has changed since March
Continuing to investigate
Implementing additional protections to safeguard personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 days(15 days from discovery to filing)
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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New Hampshire State AGJun 11 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jun 11 (NH), last Jun 16 (MA) — a 5-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/quixtar-20080611.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 11, 2008
Raw hash: 99440fed074307c3897ca1e08f567ff7ac948d6f3377a3e3b1521b8b87f28703

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityQuixtar Inc.

Victim entityQuixtar Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 27, 2008

Stated responseProvided information to the FBI about the incident and is cooperating in the FBI's investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov