HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedTargetedFinancial accountPIIMediumContained

Thesy, LLC

bd_7490611cf71add4d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 20, 2018

Filed

Nov 8, 2018

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

2,642state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Thesy, LLC →2 incidents on file

Thesy, LLC (Element Vape) notified customers of a data breach where a third-party intruder inserted malicious code into its e-commerce platform between Dec 6, 2017 and Jun 27, 2018. The breach was discovered on Sep 20, 2018 and contained on Jun 27, 2018. Customer credit card information was at risk. Thesy notified law enforcement and offered one year of LifeLock identity monitoring.

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Hawaii clock✓ HI CRA notice due7 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 288 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Dec 6, 2017

Begins

Sep 20, 2018

Discovered

Nov 8, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_85c323663de55ed72018-11-09 · +1dVerified by operator
Montana State AGbd_4be8278075b406a12018-11-05 · +3dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_a654dc30bc88fe802018-11-26 · +18dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_a79d1e1cca6e8f732018-11-26 · +18dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 27d gap

California State AGbd_9789e69f395e9d052018-11-28 · +20dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_29827fb2026f3f0e2018-12-05 · +27dVerified by operator

Name: Thesy, LLC
norm: thesy
Domain: elementvape.com

Name: Thesy, LLC
norm: thesy
Domain: elementvape.com
Industry: Retail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Sep 20, 2018
Breach occurred: Dec 6, 2017 – Jun 27, 2018
Undetected for: 288 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 2, 2018
Affected individuals: 2,642state-resident count only
Data types: Financial accountPII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1056 Input Capture
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notified law enforcement of the incident
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Conducted an investigation
Breach was contained
Malicious code was removed from our e-commerce platform
Vulnerabilities were mitigated
Notified law enforcement of the incident
Contracted with LifeLock, a Symantec company, to make available at no cost to you for one year its Life Lock DefenderTM Preferred solution
Changes made: Vulnerabilities were mitigated
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(49 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HI CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Montana State AGNov 5 · first

Hawaii State AG+3d · this page

Washington State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+21d

South Carolina State AG+21d

California State AG+23d

Oregon State AG+30d

Pattern: first filing Nov 5 (MT), last Dec 5 (OR) — a 30-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://web.archive.org/web/20211024101019id_/https://cca.hawaii.gov/ocp/files/2018/12/Thesy_LLC_OCP_2018-0599.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 8, 2018
Raw hash: 3e325e3bb0fab6af304bc76ee041ac40b94327d7c92c782ea27371217fec3bc9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThesy, LLC

Victim entityThesy, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Sep 20, 2018

Stated responseConducted an investigation

ComplianceHI CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceweb.archive.org