HackingTechnologyInformationVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumActive

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 27, 2008

Filed

Mar 10, 2008

To disclose

12 days

Affected

25state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins →

On February 27, 2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (a Wolters Kluwer business) was notified that personal information from its Stedmans.com website may have been compromised via unauthorized server intrusion. The breach affected purchases made between August 30, 2007, and February 27, 2008, exposing names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and credit card details. Approximately 25 New Hampshire residents were notified via mail on March 10, 2008. The company engaged credit reporting agencies and offered one year of free Equifax Credit Watch Gold identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 181 days

discovery → filing · 12 days

Aug 30, 2007

Begins

Feb 27, 2008

Discovered

Mar 10, 2008

Filed

vs. sector median

17 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed25 affectedView incident

Name: Wolters Kluwer
norm: wolters kluwer
Domain: wolterskluwer.com

Name: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
norm: lippincott williams wilkins
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Feb 27, 2008
Breach occurred: Aug 30, 2007 – Feb 27, 2008
Undetected for: 181 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 10, 2008
Affected individuals: 25state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Contacted the three major national credit reporting agencies
Mailed a notice to consumers who may have been affected
Working with website hosting company on additional security measures
Arranged with Equifax Personal Solutions to provide potentially affected consumers with an opportunity to enroll in the Equifax Credit WatchTM Gold identity theft protection product at no cost to them for one year
Changes made: Working with website hosting company on additional security measures for the Stedmans.com website
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/wolters-kluwer-20080310.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 10, 2008
Raw hash: 95b510404f5ad17be7acb3ac9bcec2f60c07f5b293e09e358e7a88e440154891

Reporting entityWolters Kluwer

Victim entityLippincott Williams & Wilkins

Incidentdiscovered Feb 27, 2008

Stated responseContacted the three major national credit reporting agencies

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov