AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

University of Wisconsin-Superior

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 5, 2018

Filed

Feb 22, 2018

To disclose

17 days

Affected

7state residents only

Confidence

63%

Full breach record for University of Wisconsin-Superior →

The UW-Superior Alumni Association notified individuals of a data breach where a student ID number (SSN) was inadvertently printed on a Mississippi River Cruise brochure sent to alumni on Feb 1, 2018. The error was discovered on Feb 5, 2018. Affected data included names, addresses, and SSNs. The vendor deleted the data, and LifeLock services were offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 17 days

Feb 1, 2018

Begins

Feb 5, 2018

Discovered

Feb 22, 2018

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed7 affectedView incident

Name: University of Wisconsin-Superior
norm: university of wisconsin superior

Name: University of Wisconsin-Superior
norm: university of wisconsin superior
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Feb 5, 2018
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2018
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 16, 2018
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection

During the incident: Cleaning the alumni and friend database and replacing all of the "old" ID numbers
Go Next, our travel vendor, has also verified the deletion of all mailing data used for this brochure
Retained LifeLock to provide you one (1) year of complimentary identify theft protection and credit monitoring services
Changes made: Cleaning the alumni and friend database and replacing all of the "old" ID numbers
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 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/University-of-WI.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 22, 2018
Raw hash: e607e0b44aa5cfed343d186d4a85fc90125290b0a7241288a9316b1149774b44

Reporting entityUniversity of Wisconsin-Superior

Victim entityUniversity of Wisconsin-Superior

Incidentdiscovered Feb 5, 2018

Stated responseCleaning the alumni and friend database and replacing all of the "old" ID numbers

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov