Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)CredentialsMediumContained

Florida Keys Community College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 19, 2018

Filed

Feb 27, 2019

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Florida Keys Community College →

Florida Keys Community College disclosed a phishing campaign that compromised employee email credentials between May and November 2018. The incident exposed names, addresses, SSNs, passport info, medical data, and credentials of students and staff. The College engaged forensic investigators, secured accounts, implemented MFA, and offered one year of identity monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 167 days

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 131 days

May 5, 2018

Begins

Oct 19, 2018

Discovered

Feb 27, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

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

Name: Florida Keys Community College
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Name: Florida Keys Community College
norm: florida keys community college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Oct 19, 2018
Breach occurred: May 5, 2018 – Nov 5, 2018
Undetected for: 167 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 27, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notifying state regulators as required by lawNotifying federal regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation
Retained a leading forensic investigation firm
Secured the email accounts
Notified potentially affected employees
Notified state and federal regulators
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring services
Changes made: Implemented Multi Factor Authentication on all email accounts
Implementing increased security measures for account access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(131 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/Florida-Keys-Community-College-Consumer-Letter.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 27, 2019
Raw hash: acb96800b279472353026baf20cc8e97719681b87f35673b21274c580356d62c

Reporting entityFlorida Keys Community College

Victim entityFlorida Keys Community College

Incidentdiscovered Oct 19, 2018

Stated responseLaunched an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov