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HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Centralia College

bd_1883a402ccd0af8b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 8, 2022

Filed

Aug 3, 2022

To disclose

26 days

Affected

39state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Centralia College2 incidents on file

Centralia College notified Montana residents of unauthorized network access occurring between Jan 19 and Feb 14, 2022. The college discovered the incident on July 8, 2022, after forensic investigation revealed personal information was removed. Affected data likely included PII and government IDs. The college engaged external cybersecurity professionals and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

undetected · 170 days
discovery → filing · 26 days

Jan 19, 2022

Begins

Jul 8, 2022

Discovered

Aug 3, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 9d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGAug 3 · first
Indiana State AGAug 3 · first
Montana State AGAug 3 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 3 (ME), last Aug 12 (WA) — a 9-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.