HackingRetail & ConsumerRetailVulnerability ExploitTargetedData ExfiltratedFinancial accountPIIMediumContained

Thesy, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 20, 2018

Filed

Nov 26, 2018

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

4,163state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

64%

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

Thesy, LLC (operating Element Vape) notified customers of a breach where a third-party intruder inserted malicious code into its e-commerce platform between Dec 6, 2017 and Jun 27, 2018. Discovered Sep 20, 2018, the incident potentially exposed credit card information. The company contained the breach, removed the code, notified law enforcement, and offered one year of LifeLock monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due10 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 · 10 weeks / 67 days

Dec 6, 2017

Begins

Sep 20, 2018

Discovered

Nov 26, 2018

Filed

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on median

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

Massachusetts State AGbd_a654dc30bc88fe802018-11-26Verified
California State AGbd_9789e69f395e9d052018-11-28 · +2dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_29827fb2026f3f0e2018-12-05 · +9dVerified by operator
Washington State AGbd_85c323663de55ed72018-11-09 · +17dVerified by operator

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Hawaii State AGbd_7490611cf71add4d2018-11-08 · +18dVerified
Montana State AGbd_4be8278075b406a12018-11-05 · +21dCandidate

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: 4,163state-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 LifeLock DefenderTM Preferred solution
Changes made: Vulnerabilities were mitigated
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(67 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC 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

Washington State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+21d

South Carolina State AG+21d · this page

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2018/ThesyLLC.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 26, 2018
Raw hash: 3b2dd0719a063d47dd55aea3e654b4f7132a63bcc2f249a310009908028d1776

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThesy, LLC

Victim entityThesy, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Sep 20, 2018

Stated responseConducted an investigation

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov