Social EngineeringEducationEducationBECPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPIIIdentity (basic)LowResolved

The Electrical Training Institute

bd_2c9aa7ca13c91f15 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 29, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Electrical Training Institute →

Electrical Training Institute (ETI) notified California residents of a business email compromise (BEC) incident. Unauthorized access to an email account occurred between December 23 and December 26, 2019. The investigation was completed on April 3, 2020. Affected individuals may have had personal information accessed. ETI secured the account, engaged a cybersecurity firm, implemented additional security safeguards, and offered one year of identity monitoring through Kroll.

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Incident timeline

Dec 23, 2019

Begins

Jun 29, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_08dd8b08c511744b2020-06-29Verified
Montana State AGbd_61233a0994ac82962020-06-29Candidate

Name: The Electrical Training Institute
norm: the electrical training institute

Name: The Electrical Training Institute
norm: the electrical training institute
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Dec 23, 2019 – Dec 26, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 3, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the affected email account
Launched an investigation
Engaged a cybersecurity firm to assist
Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures to further protect personal information and secure our email accounts
Offering a complimentary one-year membership in identity monitoring services through Kroll
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures to further protect personal information and secure our email accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGJun 29 · first

Montana State AGJun 29 · first

California State AGJun 29 · 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-191518
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2020
Raw hash: cffa3f14aba4925abddef678882f92f1debaf6411109a49aa7005609e544568a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Electrical Training Institute

Victim entityThe Electrical Training Institute

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseSecured the affected email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov