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ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 2, 2021

Filed

Dec 2, 2021

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected · nationwide

6456 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE

On November 2, 2021, Elizabethtown College discovered that between February 2019 and November 2021, five files containing names, Social Security numbers, and/or addresses were inadvertently saved in a shared folder accessible to users on the College's network. The College immediately secured the files and launched an investigation with an outside firm. While there is no evidence that the information was accessed or stolen, the College notified the 6 affected Maine residents out of an abundance of caution on December 2, 2021, and offered them 12 months of identity theft protection services through Experian.

Maine clockDiscovered Nov 2, 2021Filed with AG Dec 2, 202130d ME AG ≤30d4 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 1005 days
discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Feb 1, 2019

Begins

Nov 2, 2021

Discovered

Dec 2, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGDec 2 · first
Maine State AGDec 2 · first · this page

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.