HackingEducationFinancial ServicesEducationStolen CredentialsCapture Stored DataData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 26, 2024

Filed

Oct 30, 2024

To disclose

35 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Perdoceo Education Corporation notified Montana residents that its vendor, Financial Business and Consumer Solutions, Inc. (FBCS), experienced unauthorized access to its network between Feb 14-26, 2024. The incident impacted personal information of current and former students held by FBCS on Perdoceo's behalf. FBCS engaged forensic specialists and offered credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 12 days

discovery → filing · 35 weeks / 247 days

Feb 14, 2024

Begins

Feb 26, 2024

Discovered

Oct 30, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+28 wks slower

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

Name: Perdoceo Education Corporation
norm: perdoceo education

Name: Financial Business and Consumer Solutions, Inc.
norm: financial business and consumer solutions
Industry: EducationllmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 26, 2024
Breach occurred: Feb 14, 2024 – Feb 26, 2024
Undetected for: 12 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: FBCS immediately took steps to secure the impacted environment
Launched an investigation with the assistance of third-party computer forensics specialists
Offering you access to complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services for 12/24 months through CyEx
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 35 weeks(247 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/2024/11/Consumer-notification-letter-12.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 30, 2024
Raw hash: 77af991592ec92765ff2222124adeaa63d0bb337c8ec33f8d5e8fe8a2aa4fb1f

Reporting entityPerdoceo Education Corporation

Victim entityFinancial Business and Consumer Solutions, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 26, 2024

Stated responseFBCS immediately took steps to secure the impacted environment

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov