HackingTechnologyInformationDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)LowActive

Communication Services, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 20, 2022

Filed

Apr 17, 2023

To disclose

15 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Communication Services, Inc. →

Communication Services, Inc. d/b/a Interpretek notified consumers of a data incident affecting its email environment discovered on January 20, 2022. The incident may have exposed personal information including names and addresses. Interpretek engaged cybersecurity experts, is monitoring the situation, and offered 12 months of Equifax credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday15 months 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

discovery → filing · 15 months / 452 days

Jan 20, 2022

Discovered

Apr 17, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+46 wks slower

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

Name: Communication Services, Inc.
norm: communication services

Name: Communication Services, Inc.
norm: communication services
Also named: Communication Services, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Interpretekdba oftrade name
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Jan 20, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 17, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Working with cybersecurity experts to determine the actions to take in response to the incident
Investigating and closely monitoring the situation
Taking steps to strengthen security posture
Arranged for credit monitoring service (1-Bureau Credit Watch Gold) for twelve (12) months provided by Equifax
Changes made: Taking steps to strengthen security posture to prevent a similar event from occurring again in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 months(452 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
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.

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-04-17-interpretek-communication-services-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 17, 2023
Raw hash: 88eacd3ba4021024e2de70b109465b0cb8be4a38ff1b18b07744a72ecb76cd3f

Reporting entityCommunication Services, Inc.

Victim entityCommunication Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 20, 2022

Stated responseWorking with cybersecurity experts to determine the actions to take in response to the incident

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov