HackingTechnologyRetail & ConsumerInformationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.

bd_73f028e269ca8c3a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 16, 2018

Filed

Mar 22, 2018

To disclose

6 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC. →443 incidents on file

Orbitz, a third-party vendor for American Express Travel, suffered a cyber attack affecting transactions from Jan 1, 2016 to Dec 22, 2017. American Express notified cardholders on March 16, 2018. Affected data includes names, payment card info, DOB, phone, email, address, and gender. SSNs and passport info were not involved. American Express offered 2 years of Experian IdentityWorks.

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California clockDiscovered Mar 16, 2018 → Notified Mar 16, 20180d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 805 days

discovery → filing · 6 days

Jan 1, 2016

Begins

Mar 16, 2018

Discovered

Mar 22, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

12 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Orbitz Worldwide, LLC supply-chain incident (2018) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_0ac803c23242c05f2018-03-22Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_56a5f7843c5167a12018-03-21 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_a0c510dbbe6ad7ed2018-05-02 · +41dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_7454f265dc34e7502018-05-23 · +62dCandidate

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Massachusetts State AGbd_fe4f7cdf80fdfc2d2018-06-27 · +97dCandidate

Name: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
norm: american express travel related
Domain: americanexpress.com

Name: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
norm: american express travel related
Domain: americanexpress.com
Industry: TechnologyllmRetail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Mar 16, 2018
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2016 – Dec 22, 2017
Undetected for: 805 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 16, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Orbitz

During the incident: Arranged for complimentary two-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Vigilantly monitoring American Express Card accounts for fraud
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 0d
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: Mar 16, 2018
→ Notified: Mar 16, 2018
0d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Mar 16, 2018 → Notified: Mar 16, 2018	0d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 21 · first

Washington State AG+1d

California State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+42d

Massachusetts State AG+63d

Massachusetts State AG+98d

Pattern: first filing Mar 21 (MA), last Jun 27 (MA) — a 98-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/sb24-134720
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 22, 2018
Raw hash: 1e0cea93e27c878a4cf3ba61789118e51ee80e7f7f91fb0fe1e8c7f55ead45eb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.

Victim entityAMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 16, 2018

Stated responseArranged for complimentary two-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov