HackingEducationEducationCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDPIIMediumContained

Kentucky Wesleyan College

bd_17be795228342b57 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 22, 2020

Filed

Mar 25, 2021

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

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

Kentucky Wesleyan College notified the NH Attorney General of a network security incident on Sept 22, 2020, compromising servers containing PII, including Social Security Numbers, of approximately 5 New Hampshire residents. The college retained a forensic firm, contained the breach, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 184 days

Sep 22, 2020

Begins

Sep 22, 2020

Discovered

Mar 25, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+18 wks slower

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

Montana State AGbd_0e42eb75b707279a2021-03-22 · +3dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_d9a3bb47c5ddb6652021-03-22 · +3dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_d81f81f811de3bed2021-03-19 · +6dVerified
Maine State AGbd_0c98d6e8423bd90e2021-03-18 · +7dVerified

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college
Domain: squirepattonboggs.com

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 22, 2020
Breach occurred: Sep 22, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 22, 2021
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDPII
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Attorney General

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

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(184 days from discovery to filing)
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

Montana State AG+4d

Indiana State AG+4d

New Hampshire State AG+7d · this page

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/kentucky-wesleyan-20210325.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 25, 2021
Raw hash: 89d67ceff71f0437a9809edb77d78d407af6092fbbaf33e537def1dded792f83

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Victim entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Incidentdiscovered Sep 22, 2020

Stated responseRetained an IT firm to conduct a thorough forensic investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov