HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailSkimmerCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Special Buys Clothing Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 1, 2022

Filed

Jan 19, 2023

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Special Buys Clothing Inc. →

Special Buys Clothing Inc. (DBA Bargain Balloons) experienced a data breach between September 27 and November 7, 2022. An unauthorized outsider inserted malicious skimming code on the website's checkout page, capturing customer names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and credit card information. The incident was discovered in October 2022 after a customer reported fraud. The company secured the website, removed the code, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 1, 2022 → Notified Dec 15, 202275d ✗ CA 60-day late16 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 110 days

Sep 27, 2022

Begins

Oct 1, 2022

Discovered

Jan 19, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_47ae83101c7c238c2023-01-20 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_b7879b167a37cbd02023-01-30 · +11dVerified
Montana State AGbd_7f2e9177a73a85352022-12-13 · +37dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_37c987a590a024302022-12-12 · +38dVerified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_d002a3fd6a6956212022-12-12 · +38dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_196e44d4a451a3462022-12-09 · +41dVerified
Maine State AGbd_92d668249e35cf792022-12-09 · +41dCandidate
California State AGbd_d39d671c575ae4782022-12-09 · +41dVerified

Name: Special Buys Clothing Inc.
norm: special buys clothing
Domain: bargainballoons.com

Name: Special Buys Clothing Inc.
norm: special buys clothing
Domain: bargainballoons.com
Also named: Special Buys Clothing Inc.dba oflegal entity
Bargain Balloonsdba oftrade name
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 27, 2022 – Nov 7, 2022
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 15, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical MediumT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified applicable privacy commissioners
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Hired a leading firm of forensic IT experts
Secured the website
Removed the malicious code
Performed a thorough scan of our online systems
Notified applicable privacy commissioners, payment gateways and local police
Offering identity and credit monitoring services for twelve months
Changes made: Implemented additional measures and enhanced security tools to further protect information on our website and our IT systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(110 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 75d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Oct 1, 2022
→ Notified: Dec 15, 2022
75d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 1, 2022 → Notified: Dec 15, 2022	75d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 6 states

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Massachusetts State AGDec 9 · first

Maine State AGDec 9 · first

California State AGDec 9 · first

Indiana State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+3d

Montana State AG+4d

California State AG+41d · this page

Maine State AG+42d

New Hampshire State AG+52d

Pattern: first filing Dec 9 (MA), last Jan 30 (NH) — a 52-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-561985
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 19, 2023
Raw hash: 1ce112ef9430d07605d853313691be4e2747db29f0486acd52a6c7b7cebab333

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySpecial Buys Clothing Inc.

Victim entitySpecial Buys Clothing Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2022

Stated responseHired a leading firm of forensic IT experts

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov