MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsAuthenticationLowContained

Pellissippi State Community College

bd_195b67b4feac6ae7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 1, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Pellissippi State Community College →

Pellissippi State Community College suffered a ransomware cyberattack on December 5-6, 2021. The attacker accessed the Active Directory database, compromising names, usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, and hashed passwords of students, faculty, and staff. The college notified law enforcement and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

Dec 5, 2021

Begins

Feb 1, 2022

Filed

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

Maine State AGbd_42038c4a8134e07a2022-02-01Verified
Indiana State AGbd_8c1470148a67a7102022-02-01Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_24f3c1c62e07a9a42022-02-04 · +3dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_31bd0bf1f34bff052022-01-01 · +31dVerified

Name: Pellissippi State Community College
norm: pellissippi state community college
Domain: pstcc.edu

Name: Pellissippi State Community College
norm: pellissippi state community college
Domain: pstcc.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Dec 5, 2021 – Dec 6, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 1, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)CredentialsAuthentication
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified appropriate state and federal authorities

During the incident: Notified local law enforcement, including the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and appropriate state and federal authorities
Scanned every computer
Enhanced security measures
Arranged for enrollment in an online credit monitoring service (myTrueIdentity) for 12 months provided by TransUnion Interactive
Changes made: Enhanced security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Maine State AG+31d

Indiana State AG+31d

California State AG+31d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+34d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Feb 4 (NH) — a 34-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-550601
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 1, 2022
Raw hash: 2a0365a248aaf827d4f41dbdbc56889278d27a9f96c73c298ebe528d5db5c6fc

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPellissippi State Community College

Victim entityPellissippi State Community College

IncidentRansomware

Stated responseNotified local law enforcement, including the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and appropriate state and federal authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov