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California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2016

Filed

Apr 12, 2019

To disclose

31 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office →

Pearson VUE, a service provider for the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, discovered that California Nurses' Aide information may have been improperly forwarded to an unauthorized account due to email phishing between October 2016 and September 2017. Affected data may include name, Social Security number, date of birth, and exam score information. The unauthorized account was blocked, and additional safeguards were implemented. Complimentary two-year Experian IdentityWorks membership is offered.

California clockDiscovered Oct 1, 2016 → Notified Aug 1, 2018669d ✗ CA 60-day late31 months discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 31 months / 923 days

Oct 1, 2016

Begins

Oct 1, 2016

Discovered

Apr 12, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+122 wks slower

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

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.