HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

The Teaching Company Sales, LLC

bd_ba087ee1074b88bb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 1, 2023

Filed

Jul 16, 2024

To disclose

37 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

6 records

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for The Teaching Company Sales, LLC →

The Teaching Company Sales, LLC d/b/a The Great Courses disclosed unauthorized network access occurring between Nov 8-24, 2023, discovered in late Nov 2023. Files containing names and other personal info were accessed. The company engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement, and offered credit monitoring. No specific count of affected individuals was provided in this Montana notification.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d37 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

Nov 8, 2023

Begins

Jul 16, 2024

Filed

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

A leak claim by akira about this victim was first seen 217 days before this filing.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Siteakirabd_b0f85b0a81e061e62023-12-12 · +217dVerified

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_0eef38394734f22a2024-07-16Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_195bfc1f2e44f5b02024-07-16Verified by operator
Vermont State AGbd_70cc78c1c148ed6a2024-07-16Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ec3d93399dff501a2024-07-16Verified by operator

Name: The Teaching Company Sales, LLC
norm: the teaching company sales
Domain: thegreatcourses.com

Name: The Teaching Company Sales, LLC
norm: the teaching company sales
Domain: thegreatcourses.com
Also named: The Teaching Company Sales, LLCdba oflegal entity
The Great Coursesdba oftrade name
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Nov 1, 2023
Breach occurred: Nov 8, 2023 – Nov 24, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 16, 2024
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: notified federal law enforcement
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the event with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists
Promptly notified federal law enforcement
Undertook a comprehensive and time-intensive review of all potentially impacted files with the assistance of third-party data review specialists
Offering you access to 12/24 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services by IDX, a ZeroFox Company, at no cost to you
Changes made: Implementing additional technical security measures to strengthen the security of our systems
Reviewing and enhancing our existing data privacy policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 37 weeks(258 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >180d
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 · 5 filings · 5 states

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Maine State AGJul 16 · first

Indiana State AGJul 16 · first

Vermont State AGJul 16 · first

Massachusetts State AGJul 16 · first

Montana State AGJul 16 · first · this page

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-1552.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 16, 2024
Raw hash: 6c0cb907b061e672422f86ae63c330f860fa0b43b0a4113bd701fd535f0c1c05

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Teaching Company Sales, LLC

Victim entityThe Teaching Company Sales, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Nov 1, 2023

Stated responseLaunched an investigation into the nature and scope of the event with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov