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HackingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumResolved

ANDREWS MCMEEL UNIVERSAL

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 20, 2023

Filed

Mar 22, 2023

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected · nationwide

2,4209 in this filing

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ANDREWS MCMEEL UNIVERSAL2 incidents on file

Andrews McMeel Universal, a commercial organization, reported an external system breach that occurred on November 17, 2022, and was discovered on February 20, 2023. The breach impacted a total of 2,420 individuals, with 9 of them being Maine residents. The compromised data included names combined with financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers along with their security codes, access codes, passwords, or PINs. Affected consumers were notified in writing on March 22, 2023, and were offered 12 months of credit monitoring services from IDX.

Maine clockDiscovered Feb 20, 2023Filed with AG Mar 22, 202330d ME AG ≤30d4 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 · 95 days
discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Nov 17, 2022

Begins

Feb 20, 2023

Discovered

Mar 22, 2023

Filed

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filingsup to 58d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Jan 23 (ME), last Mar 22 (ME) — a 58-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.