MisusePrivilege AbuseData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumActive
ELS
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Full breach record for ELS →ELS Language Services, Inc. disclosed a data breach involving a former employee who stole credit card and personal data between April 2017 and August 2018. The incident is under FBI investigation. Affected data includes names, passport info, and credit card details. No specific count of affected individuals was provided. The company offered 12 months of credit monitoring.
California clockDiscovered Sep 10, 2018 → Notified Sep 10, 20180d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 days discovery → filing
⚠ notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 entity
- Name
- ELSnorm: els
- Domain
- d2oihblb0usv0e.cloudfront.net
Victim entity
- Name
- ELSnorm: els
- Domain
- d2oihblb0usv0e.cloudfront.net
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 10, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 10, 2018
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Insider
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- InternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- FBI investigation
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 days(8 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 0d
- Discovery-date grounding
- notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Sep 10, 2018→ Notified: Sep 10, 20180d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.