Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Chautauqua Institution

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 12, 2024

Filed

Aug 14, 2024

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Chautauqua Institution →

Chautauqua Institution notified consumers of a data breach detected on June 12, 2024, involving unauthorized access to an employee's business email account. The incident likely exposed first name, last name, and Social Security numbers. The Institution disabled the account, reset passwords, and engaged forensic specialists. Affected individuals were offered 12 months of credit monitoring and fraud assistance.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 63 days

Jun 12, 2024

Discovered

Aug 14, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_6697f46c156729652024-08-14Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_4c6617ed2e4eee5d2024-08-12 · +2dVerified

Name: Chautauqua Institution
norm: chautauqua institution

Name: Chautauqua Institution
norm: chautauqua institution
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jun 12, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 12, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email environment by disabling the account and resetting passwords
Engaged third-party forensic specialists to investigate the incident
Changes made: Reviewing technical safeguards and looking into enhancements to prevent a similar incident
Providing access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing proactive fraud assistance
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(63 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Indiana State AGAug 12 · first

Maine State AG+2d

Vermont State AG+2d · 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.

Source URL: https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-08-14-chautauqua-institution-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 14, 2024
Raw hash: 7af653a9cdd203e9988a0c9f654d2b7391af5513c77db23d1411bb9464dff9a8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChautauqua Institution

Victim entityChautauqua Institution

Incidentdiscovered Jun 12, 2024

Stated responseSecured the email environment by disabling the account and resetting passwords

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov