HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

SUNY Schenectady County Community College

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 19, 2024

Filed

Sep 27, 2024

To disclose

8 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for SUNY Schenectady County Community College →

SUNY Schenectady County Community College notified consumers of a security incident involving unauthorized access to an employee email account. The attacker accessed sensitive information including names and potentially other PII. The college secured the account, engaged third-party specialists, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services.

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Vermont clock✓ VT AG ≤14 bday8 days 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 · 8 days

Sep 19, 2024

Discovered

Sep 27, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_59d7844eda69d8d02024-09-27Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_75ba3313b23beba82024-09-27Verified

Name: SUNY Schenectady County Community College
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Name: SUNY Schenectady County Community College
norm: suny schenectady county community college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 19, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 27, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the employee email account
Investigated the activity
Conducted a comprehensive review of the contents of the email account with the assistance of third-party specialists
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian for 24 months
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing existing security procedures and measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 days(8 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG ≤14 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.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 27 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 27 · first

Vermont State AGSep 27 · 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-09-27-suny-schenectady-county-community-college-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 27, 2024
Raw hash: 68b4a45a0a64c195aab23559d1005dbd7420d663278220bf779e5594418a3a28

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySUNY Schenectady County Community College

Victim entitySUNY Schenectady County Community College

Incidentdiscovered Sep 19, 2024

Stated responseSecured the employee email account

ComplianceVT AG ≤14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov