HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIICredentialsIdentity (basic)LowContained

Gulf Coast State College (GCSC)

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 12, 2020

Filed

Sep 29, 2020

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Gulf Coast State College (GCSC) →

Gulf Coast State College notified affected individuals of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between March 31 and June 3, 2020. The incident was discovered on August 12, 2020. Personal information, including credentials and identity data, may have been accessed. The college engaged Kroll for credit monitoring and enhanced security protocols.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 134 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Mar 31, 2020

Begins

Aug 12, 2020

Discovered

Sep 29, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_2c61a116f3b8e7bd2020-09-29Verified
Maine State AGbd_443813483e474eea2020-09-29Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_fc3d2c4f71de24552020-09-29Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_afb654f15ad711c92020-09-30 · +1dVerified

Name: Gulf Coast State College (GCSC)
norm: gulf coast state college gcsc

Name: Gulf Coast State College (GCSC)
norm: gulf coast state college gcsc
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Aug 12, 2020
Breach occurred: Mar 31, 2020 – Jun 3, 2020
Undetected for: 134 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 27, 2020
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: PIICredentialsIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the employees’ email accounts
Began an investigation
Searched the contents of the accounts to identify documents containing personal information
Engaged Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year
Enhanced existing security protocols
Re-educating staff for awareness on these types of incidents
Changes made: Enhanced existing security protocols
Re-educating staff for awareness on these types of incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGSep 29 · first

Maine State AGSep 29 · first

Massachusetts State AGSep 29 · first

Montana State AGSep 29 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

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/Breach-NotificationDetails-219.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 29, 2020
Raw hash: 364ba5379de919985eff6e0fb836ce66c85ae5fdd8de7b59b897d68ca8ca0a55

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGulf Coast State College (GCSC)

Victim entityGulf Coast State College (GCSC)

Incidentdiscovered Aug 12, 2020

Stated responseSecured the employees’ email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov