AccidentalEducationEducationLossCustomer Data InvolvedPIIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumResolved

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

bd_06e865c633561db8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2021

Filed

May 6, 2022

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA →3 incidents on file

University of Southern California (USC) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on May 6, 2022, regarding a data incident involving a lost external hard drive. A professor misplaced the drive on or about September 28, 2021. USC discovered the loss on October 1, 2021. The drive contained academic records and Social Security numbers for one New Hampshire resident. No evidence of misappropriation was found. USC notified the individual on April 26, 2022, and offered identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 217 days

Sep 28, 2021

Begins

Oct 1, 2021

Discovered

May 6, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_225c2aa965cadb542022-05-05 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_4962b25312de3ec32021-12-28 · +129dVerified by operator
Massachusetts State AGbd_0ed3ac6308a371702021-12-22 · +135dVerified
California State AGbd_7b12e5e380e420fc2021-12-22 · +135dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 155d gap

Montana State AGbd_a24a34dbd24aff6e2021-12-02 · +155dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_cb71465ebb99feaf2021-12-02 · +155dVerified

Name: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
norm: university of southern california

Name: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
norm: university of southern california
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2021
Breach occurred: Sep 28, 2021
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 26, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium

During the incident: Initiated an investigation and a review of available backups of the hard drive data
Undertook efforts to identify all potentially affected individuals
Review of the potentially affected data concluded in March 2022
Notified the potentially affected New Hampshire resident of this incident via the attached sample letter on April 26, 2022
Offered the notified New Hampshire resident complimentary identity protection services through IDX
Changes made: Reviewed its data security policies with the professor in an effort to prevent a similar incident occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(217 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 6 states

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Montana State AGDec 2 · first

Indiana State AGDec 2 · first

Massachusetts State AG+20d

California State AG+20d

Maine State AG+26d

California State AG+154d

New Hampshire State AG+155d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 2 (MT), last May 6 (NH) — a 155-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/university-southern-california-20220506.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 6, 2022
Raw hash: be022d4a64740f876ba7c3867b5fa28ea504dfb925c74d25d227da8d37dbee84

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Victim entityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2021

Stated responseInitiated an investigation and a review of available backups of the hard drive data

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov