PhysicalEducationEducationTheftEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

Tulane University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 29, 2010

Filed

Jan 7, 2011

To disclose

9 days

Affected

23state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Tulane University →3 incidents on file

Tulane University reported the theft of a password-protected but unencrypted laptop containing W-2 information (names, SSNs, addresses, salaries) for employees and student workers. The laptop was stolen from an employee's vehicle on December 29, 2010. 23 New Hampshire residents were affected. The university offered one year of credit monitoring and reviewed security policies.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 days

Dec 29, 2010

Begins

Dec 29, 2010

Discovered

Jan 7, 2011

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_b32c3138339dbc4c2011-01-10 · +3dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_b44c403a25cf84952011-01-10 · +3dVerified

Name: Tulane University
norm: tulane university
Domain: tulane.edu

Name: Tulane University
norm: tulane university
Domain: tulane.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 29, 2010
Breach occurred: Dec 29, 2010
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 6, 2011
Affected individuals: 23state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire

During the incident: Reported the incident to the appropriate police department
Notifying all affected individuals of this incident
Offering one year of credit monitoring through TransUnion
Set up a call center to answer the questions of affected individuals
Changes made: Started a review of its policies and procedures concerning the use and protection of confidential information
Re-educating its employees with respect to safeguarding laptops and confidential information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGJan 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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/tulane-university-20110107.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 7, 2011
Raw hash: f8f15165e874e6e124cc7d9b83d3e969de733230c7553875023778e0973935fa

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTulane University

Victim entityTulane University

Incidentdiscovered Dec 29, 2010

Stated responseReported the incident to the appropriate police department

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov