AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)EducationLowResolved

Total Registration LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 11, 2019

Filed

May 30, 2019

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Total Registration LLC →

Total Registration LLC, a third-party service provider for exam registration, experienced a data security incident due to a misconfigured Amazon S3 file storage server. The misconfiguration allowed potential unauthorized access to student registration information (names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, student IDs) for students who registered for AP exams between June 2016 and April 2019. The issue was discovered on April 11, 2019, by a security researcher and remediated by April 12, 2019. No evidence of actual unauthorized access by third parties was found. Social Security numbers, credit card data, and medical information were not involved.

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California clockDiscovered Apr 11, 2019 → Notified May 10, 201929d ✓ CA 60-day OK7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 1044 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Jun 1, 2016

Begins

Apr 11, 2019

Discovered

May 30, 2019

Filed

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

Name: Total Registration LLC
norm: total registration
Domain: totalregistration.net

Name: Total Registration LLC
norm: total registration
Domain: totalregistration.net
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 11, 2019
Breach occurred: Jun 1, 2016 – Apr 12, 2019
Undetected for: 1,044 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 10, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Education
Attack vector: Misconfiguration

During the incident: Immediately investigated and remedied the issue by April 12, 2019
Reconfigured its settings for its file storage system to correct the problem
Deleted any remaining files in the S3 file storage service that had been retained due to the misconfigured setting
Working with a third-party data security specialist to review its platform
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence of such an incident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(49 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 29d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Apr 11, 2019
→ Notified: May 10, 2019
29d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Apr 11, 2019 → Notified: May 10, 2019	29d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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/sb24-147669
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 30, 2019
Raw hash: ffe29e6c0e868643d9dd5d9b61531c5495c94fb9fa693d5f2e9ee4fa86c535e0

Reporting entityTotal Registration LLC

Victim entityTotal Registration LLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 11, 2019

Stated responseImmediately investigated and remedied the issue by April 12, 2019

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov