MisuseEducationEducationPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsMediumActive

ELS

bd_7fdef33305b0e73d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 18, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for ELS →

ELS Language Services, Inc. notified customers of a data breach involving a former employee at the Santa Monica location who is under FBI investigation for suspected theft of credit card and personal data. The incident occurred between April 2017 and August 22, 2018. Affected data includes names, passport numbers, photos, email addresses, mailing addresses, and credit/debit card information including security codes. The company is cooperating with law enforcement and offering 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

Apr 1, 2017

Begins

Sep 18, 2018

Filed

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

Name: ELS
norm: els
Domain: d2oihblb0usv0e.cloudfront.net

Name: ELS
norm: els
Domain: d2oihblb0usv0e.cloudfront.net
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2017 – Aug 22, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 10, 2018
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentials
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Cooperating with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Cooperating with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in their investigations of this incident
Investigating our own systems and procedures to identify the customers and personal data categories affected by this incident
Offering 12 months of free credit monitoring and fraud detection through ALL CLEAR
Changes made: Determine how we might improve our practices to prevent similar instances in the future
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.

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/sb24-139938
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 18, 2018
Raw hash: 48a0bd89e8b1f432b9fd392d7a757c18b9834b43f94b59cfe90c1a028b2684d7

Reporting entityELS

Victim entityELS

IncidentInsider

Stated responseCooperating with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in their investigations of this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov