Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Missouri Southern State University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 9, 2019

Filed

Jun 13, 2019

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

11state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Missouri Southern State University →

Missouri Southern State University notified the NH Attorney General of a data breach affecting 11 NH residents. On Jan 9, 2019, the University detected a phishing attack where employees clicked a malicious link, compromising Office 365 accounts. The breach exposed names, dates of birth, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and SSNs of employees, candidates, students, and alumni. The University engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 155 days

Jan 9, 2019

Discovered

Jun 13, 2019

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_a1464e60e76634c62019-06-13Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_bc1e12ea54c0300b2019-06-13Verified

Name: Missouri Southern State University
norm: missouri southern state university

Name: Missouri Southern State University
norm: missouri southern state university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 9, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 13, 2019
Affected individuals: 11state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General of New HampshireIn regular communication with the Missouri Attorney General's OfficeContacted the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacted the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force
Engaged a leading forensic investigation firm to look into the matter
Undertook enhancements to its already robust IT systems to block potential e-mail exploitation
Mass password reset of all employee Office 365 accounts
Engaged a forensics team, other cybersecurity experts, and law enforcement
Offering 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and $1 million dollars in identity theft insurance
Changes made: Analyze and improve security and monitoring of its Office 365 accounts containing sensitive information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 weeks(155 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 · 3 states

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Montana State AGJun 13 · first

Massachusetts State AGJun 13 · first

New Hampshire State AGJun 13 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/missouri-southern-university-20190613.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 13, 2019
Raw hash: 9825f533d47b7bd735bd3c78a28c99b75b293a3b1db4db156a0883da931b7d3c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMissouri Southern State University

Victim entityMissouri Southern State University

Incidentdiscovered Jan 9, 2019

Stated responseContacted the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov