HackingTransportation & LogisticsTransportationEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsHealth (basic)EmploymentEducationCredentialsMediumContained

Gazelle Transportation, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 24, 2019

Filed

Oct 29, 2019

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Gazelle Transportation, Inc. →

Gazelle Transportation, LLC notified employees of unauthorized access to its servers occurring between September 1 and September 24, 2019. The company detected unusual activity on September 24, 2019, and hired forensic investigators who confirmed unauthorized access on September 25, 2019. No evidence of data exfiltration was found. Affected data may include names, SSNs, driver's licenses, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, and employment/medical information. The company notified law enforcement and regulators, hired IT specialists to secure the network, and offered 12 months of identity theft protection to affected employees.

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California clockDiscovered Sep 24, 2019 → Notified Sep 27, 20193d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 23 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 35 days

Sep 1, 2019

Begins

Sep 24, 2019

Discovered

Oct 29, 2019

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Gazelle Transportation, Inc.
norm: gazelle transportation

Name: Gazelle Transportation, Inc.
norm: gazelle transportation
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Sep 24, 2019
Breach occurred: Sep 1, 2019 – Sep 24, 2019
Undetected for: 23 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 27, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsHealth (basic)EmploymentEducationCredentials
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI, the IRS, the Franchise Tax Board (“FTB”), all three credit bureaus, and the applicable state agencies of this incident

During the incident: Hired a specialized forensic IT firm to investigate
Notified the FBI, the IRS, the Franchise Tax Board (“FTB”), all three credit bureaus, and the applicable state agencies of this incident
Reviewing office policies and procedures to ensure all security measures are taken to avoid such an incident from occurring again
Hired IT specialists to determine what happened and confirm the security of our network
Working with law enforcement in their investigation of the criminals responsible for this incident
Changes made: Reviewing office policies and procedures to ensure all security measures are taken to avoid such an incident from occurring again
Hired IT specialists to determine what happened and confirm the security of our network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(35 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 3d
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: Sep 24, 2019
→ Notified: Sep 27, 2019
3d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Sep 24, 2019 → Notified: Sep 27, 2019	3d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/sb24-183923
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 29, 2019
Raw hash: e4c6019bc54f4f372e269e6496068ba5a4210692f4e77448663100ff19ee6866

Reporting entityGazelle Transportation, Inc.

Victim entityGazelle Transportation, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 24, 2019

Stated responseHired a specialized forensic IT firm to investigate

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov