One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Sep 18, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_df222b3278c54c88 · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Identity (basic) · Government ID · Financial account
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Apr 1, 2017 → Aug 22, 2018
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Sep 10, 2018
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
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.
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.