Social EngineeringEducationTechnologyEducationPhishingTargetedCredentialsMediumContained

The INC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 10, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

1,632state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for The INC →

The INC, a managed IT services provider for South Carolina educational institutions, notified the SC Attorney General of a phishing attempt targeting its community. The malicious email aimed to steal login credentials. The IT team contained the threat. No specific data breach or affected individual count was confirmed.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Nov 10, 2025

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,632 affectedView incident

Name: The INC
norm: the
Domain: theinc.us

Name: The INC
norm: the
Domain: theinc.us
Industry: EducationllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,632state-resident count only
Data types: Credentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: IT security team responded immediately to contain the threat and mitigate further impact
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/2025/Security%20Alert_%20Phishing%20Attempt%20Targeting%20Our%20Community.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 10, 2025
Raw hash: 26438a505a02ac5c1db1af1f0e507f68c2b501259ec7cf1a44c1a5d5a695de50

Reporting entityThe INC

Victim entityThe INC

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseIT security team responded immediately to contain the threat and mitigate further impact

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov