HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Kentucky Wesleyan College

bd_0e42eb75b707279a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 22, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Kentucky Wesleyan College →3 incidents on file

Kentucky Wesleyan College notified Montana AG of a network security incident occurring on or about September 22, 2020. Unauthorized access compromised PII of the KWC community. The college engaged forensic investigators, contained the incident, and provided 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

Sep 22, 2020

Begins

Mar 22, 2021

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_d9a3bb47c5ddb6652021-03-22Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_17be795228342b572021-03-25 · +3dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_d81f81f811de3bed2021-03-19 · +3dVerified
Maine State AGbd_0c98d6e8423bd90e2021-03-18 · +4dVerified

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college
Domain: kwc.edu

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college
Domain: kwc.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Sep 22, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 22, 2021
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Filed notification with Montana Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Ensured that the unauthorized individual no longer had access to our system
Investigated and contained the incident
Retained a third party IT firm to conduct a thorough forensic investigation
Assisted in the remediation of our system
Implemented additional security measures
Arranged for Cyberscout to provide twenty-four (24) months of complimentary credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance
Changes made: Strengthened our system
Implemented additional security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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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Maine State AGMar 18 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Indiana State AG+4d

Montana State AG+4d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Mar 18 (ME), last Mar 25 (NH) — a 7-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/KWC-Notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 22, 2021
Raw hash: 496cb11d07ce1a9b430fef7caa178f0f75e8aaf524d6f61634b1b136ffbbb351

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Victim entityKentucky Wesleyan College

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEnsured that the unauthorized individual no longer had access to our system

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov