HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsLowContained

BraceAbility, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 28, 2016

Filed

Dec 13, 2016

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

22state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for BraceAbility, Inc. →

BraceAbility, Inc. notified customers of a security incident involving its online ordering website. Unauthorized access occurred between September 24 and November 28, 2016, potentially exposing credit/debit card data, names, and addresses. The company engaged forensic experts, corrected the vulnerability, and offered one year of Equifax Credit Watch Gold identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 34 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Sep 24, 2016

Begins

Oct 28, 2016

Discovered

Dec 13, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

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

California State AGbd_99609ca4c6c3ed302016-12-13Verified

Name: BraceAbility, Inc.
norm: braceability

Name: BraceAbility, Inc.
norm: braceability
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Oct 28, 2016
Breach occurred: Sep 24, 2016 – Nov 28, 2016
Undetected for: 34 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 7, 2016
Affected individuals: 22state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Engaged independent IT forensic experts to assist with our investigation
Identified and corrected the vulnerability that allowed the attack
Partnered with Equifax to provide Credit Watch Gold identity theft protection product for one year at no charge
Changes made: Corrected the vulnerability that allowed the attack
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 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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California State AGDec 13 · first

Montana State AGDec 13 · first · this page

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/BraceAbility.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 13, 2016
Raw hash: 96e1d087ca88e319d51b811eb52eaeab83e3998a87f476ec5116c6014d096e66

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBraceAbility, Inc.

Victim entityBraceAbility, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 28, 2016

Stated responseEngaged independent IT forensic experts to assist with our investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov