NuTSR Financial Data Breach

The ongoing saga of “TSR3” continues as Justin LaNasa, owner of “TSR LLC”, allegedly stores and has emailed to others a spreadsheet containing customer financial information stored without any form of encoding or encryption.

In a video released by Don Semora of Wizard Tower Games, Semora claims Justin LaNasa emailed him a spreadsheet in May 2022 that included financial information from customers and business partners including full names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, and even credit card numbers, all stored in plain text with no encoding or encryption. This includes customers of TSR or Dungeon Hobby Shop’s webstores purchasing products including Cult of Abaddon, Dungeon Crawl: The Board Game, TSR Dice, and others.

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Screenshots of the spreadsheet (with private information redacted) show up in the video starting at the nine minute mark.

Wizard Tower Games also commented in the EN World thread “The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR” offering to confirm if anyone’s personal information was part of the spreadsheet he received. According to David Flor, transactions with the companies are processed under the name “Port City Kava”, an oxygen bar and vape/ecig store run by Justin LaNasa in North Carolina.

For those unfamiliar with the Saga of the TSR Trademark, EN World has a timeline of events with links to more information going back to the start in June of 2021 and, at the time of writing, updated through July 22, 2022.

The video from Semora is the most recent entry in a back-and-forth between himself and LaNasa following a Twitter post from Wizard Tower Games on August 29 confirming the company received two subpoenas related to the lawsuit with Wizards of the Coast. Michael K. Hovermale, former employee of TSR LLC, confirmed he also received a subpoena related to the lawsuit and confirmed in a post on EN World that he retained all information from his time working for LaNasa and informed LaNasa of this in June of 2022. In a video titled “OPEN LETTER LANASA” posted on September 1, Don Semora says he received a text message from LaNasa accusing Semora and Hovermale of “photoshopping documents”. The video consists of Semora posting screenshots of documents he claims were sent to him from LaNasa. In response, LaNasa claimed the documents in the video were Photoshopped by posting his own screenshots and calling Semora a "liar" on social media including in the title of a channel on the TSR Discord server, according to a screenshot from the private server posted by Kim Wincen. Semora responded with the video posted earlier today containing the spreadsheet along with other screenshots.

The trial between TSR LLC, the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum LLC, and Justin LaNasa v. Wizards of the Coast is scheduled for a jury trial in October 2023.

 

[pantsorama]

It doesn't matter the reasons as the harm being done is real either way. "Ironic racism" is still racism.

I shall repeat the baser yet more colorful version of this statement:

Even if you had sex with a goat ironically, you still had sex with a goat.

 

[Abstruse]

@Abstruse so "today" is now "yesterday", what was supposed to happen? I still want to know

I don't know what point you're trying to make, but in case you haven't noticed, a lot of this stuff is not online anymore because the lawyers got involved.

 

[Ancalagon]

I don't know what point you're trying to make, but in case you haven't noticed, a lot of this stuff is not online anymore because the lawyers got involved.

I'm not "trying to make a point". I'm trying to get you to elaborate. You said, 2 days ago now:

Tomorrow is going to be interesting...I almost feel sorry for Justin's lawyers.

Almost.

This implied that you knew something big was coming. I was just trying to get an update on what that "big thing" was and if it happened or not.

 

[Abstruse]

I'm not "trying to make a point". I'm trying to get you to elaborate. You said, 2 days ago now:



This implied that you knew something big was coming. I was just trying to get an update on what that "big thing" was and if it happened or not.

If I knew for sure that something would happen, I would have written an article about it. I've got no reason to be coy about this sort of thing. What I know is that Monday was a holiday in the United States, meaning that the agencies that handle investigations of financial data breaches and leaks are closed. As are the majority of legal firms. Meaning the consequences for what happened over the weekend would start at that time. Which we've already seen as Don Semora has taken down his original videos.

 

[Stormonu]

NuTSR is kind of like some bizarre variant hydra with the following traits:

Shoot Foot. As a bonus action, the NuTSR hydra can shoot one of its own feet.

Multiple Feet. The NuTSR hydra has multiple feet. Each turn it needs to roll an Integrity saving throw to avoid tripping over its own feet, landing prone on a failure. If the NuTSR hydra has any active sock puppets (see below), this saving throw is at disadvantage.

Regrow Feet. At the end of its turn, it grows two feet for each foot that was shot off since its last turn. If the NuTSR hydra is subjected to the social media silence spell, this trait does not function.

Sock Puppet. As an action, the NuTSR hydra can create a sock puppet for each active foot that it has.

I am reminded of this Order of the Stick Comic

 

[Eltab]

How many times can you shoot yourself in your own foot before you run out of feet?

If you are a centipede or a millipede ... a lot.

 

[Sacrosanct]

If you are a centipede or a millipede ... a lot.

They have legs, but do they really have feet?

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

They have legs, but do they really have feet?

Of course. Where else would they wear their shoes?

 

[Michael Linke]

I don't think anyone was not aware of this, or confused about anything. This all started because the lapsed registration made LaNasa think he could acquire and then squat on the name TSR and make WotC pay him to go away. I think WotC will make flagrantly clear that this line of attack didn't, and will never, work.

Indeed. It's really unclear if LaNasa and company didn't know about the DMsG reprints (unlikely, since they also complained about the disclaimers on DMsG products), didn't make the connection, or didn't think that re-issues of old products counted as keeping trademarked IP in commercial use.

I thought I read in one of the complaints that he believed that when WotC put Star Frontiers for sale on DMs guild, they had somehow inadvertently confirmed that TSR (which in his mind is the same company he owns) was the actual owner of Star Frontiers, and the he/TSR is therefor actively selling Star Frontiers without contest from WotC.

Edit: as far as I can tell, there was a change to the PCI DSS standard at some point. While at one time, storing encrypted values was considered compliant, the current standard have you storing nothing, encrypted or otherwise. It’s very possible he just has older software that stores the encrypted values.

 

[Abstruse]

I thought I read in one of the complaints that he believed that when WotC put Star Frontiers for sale on DMs guild, they had somehow inadvertently confirmed that TSR (which in his mind is the same company he owns) was the actual owner of Star Frontiers, and the he/TSR is therefor actively selling Star Frontiers without contest from WotC.

I'm not saying LaNasa didn't claim that (he's said so much random crap it's impossible to keep track), but the original Star Frontiers went on sale in DMs Guild in 2017 back when Evil Hat did all this the right way (they registered the trademark, contacted Wizards of the Coast to make sure the trademark was intentionally abandoned, was told it was not, Evil Hat withdrew their registration, and Wizards of the Coast put up the Star Frontiers products as part of their legacy line to reaffirm their hold on the trademark). So this was way back when LaNasa too busy with his grits wrestling league to mess with the TTRPG industry.