HackingVulnerability ExploitStolen CredentialsDelayed DiscoveryCustomer Data InvolvedCREDENTIALSLowResolved
The Chronicle
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Full breach record for The Chronicle →The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. disclosed that unauthorized parties exploited a server vulnerability to obtain administrative credentials and accessed a database containing hashed and salted passwords for online accounts on February 17, 2020. The incident was discovered on May 10, 2020, after an internal alert. The company took the server offline, engaged forensic investigators, and notified law enforcement. Affected users were prompted to change passwords, and the company implemented stronger hashing technology and replaced the affected server.
California clockDiscovered May 10, 2020 → Notified May 13, 20203d ✓ CA 60-day OK3 days discovery → filing
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_557eb7302a7faf95California State AGfiled 2020-07-10(58d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-189946
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- May 13, 2020
- Raw hash
- 7676d7d4a912167898a3990885dd36a5179a7c0f0d09d546a202f791949c80fd
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc.norm: the chronicle of higher education
Victim entity
- Name
- The Chroniclenorm: the chronicle
- Domain
- thechronicle.com
Incident
- Discovered
- May 10, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- May 13, 2020
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- CREDENTIALS
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 3 days(3 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 3d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: May 10, 2020→ Notified: May 13, 20203d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.