AccidentalEducationTechnologyEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Maryland Institute College of Art

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 13, 2022

Filed

Oct 4, 2022

To disclose

21 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

QM Services, Inc., a third-party consultant for the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), notified affected individuals of a data breach caused by a misconfiguration that made student health insurance information publicly available from May 13 to May 14, 2022. The incident involved names and government identifiers. No evidence of misuse was found.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 21 weeks / 144 days

May 13, 2022

Begins

May 13, 2022

Discovered

Oct 4, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+12 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: QM Services, Inc.
norm: qm services

Name: Maryland Institute College of Art
norm: maryland institute college of art
Industry: EducationllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: May 13, 2022
Breach occurred: May 13, 2022 – May 14, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 9, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: Notified state and federal regulators

During the incident: Corrected the misconfiguration
Launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the incident with the assistance of third-party investigative specialists
Reviewed policies and procedures
Put additional measures into effect to further protect the security of information
Notified state and federal regulators
Changes made: Reviewed policies and procedures
Put additional measures into effect to further protect the security of information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 weeks(144 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-599.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 4, 2022
Raw hash: 7d9e66b5372510fdc4d6a8e5a232fcaa9dab5e5a0ee9f8365c903405da1a3e10

Reporting entityQM Services, Inc.

Victim entityMaryland Institute College of Art

Incidentdiscovered May 13, 2022

Stated responseCorrected the misconfiguration

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov