HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsEmploymentMediumContained

Chemeketa Community College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 13, 2025

Filed

Feb 28, 2025

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Chemeketa Community College →

Chemeketa Community College notified Maryland AG of a data breach involving third-party administrator Carruth Compliance Consulting. Incident occurred approx. Dec 21, 2024. Personal info of ~3 Maryland residents (names, SSNs, driver's licenses, medical billing) was acquired without authorization. Chemeketa CC engaged investigators, notified the FBI, and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Maryland clock⏱ MD AG >30d7 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

undetected · 23 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Jan 13, 2025

Discovered

Feb 28, 2025

Filed

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

Part of Carruth Compliance Consulting supply-chain incident (2025) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_0ce41b3eecfd9cfc2025-02-28Verified
Oregon State AGbd_37605f8c85948e972025-02-28Verified
Vermont State AGbd_a5b6b92b2724ec472025-02-28Verified
Maine State AGbd_b04b139c5bfa404f2025-02-28Verified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_facf1bcc24c005582025-02-28Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_703d4da85284a6092025-03-07 · +7dCandidate

Name: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP
norm: constangy brooks smith prophete

Name: Chemeketa Community College
norm: chemeketa community college
Domain: chemeketa.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 13, 2025
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 23 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationNotified Maryland Attorney General
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Began an investigation to determine what happened and what data was involved
Worked with third-party specialists to investigate the activity
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Established a toll-free call center through IDX to answer questions
Sent notification letters to affected Maryland residents by USPS First Class Mail
Offered complimentary identity protection services including 12 months of credit monitoring, dark web monitoring, $1 million identity fraud loss reimbursement policy, and fully managed identity theft recovery services
Changes made: Offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >30d
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 · 7 filings · 7 states

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Indiana State AGFeb 28 · first

Oregon State AGFeb 28 · first

Vermont State AGFeb 28 · first

Maine State AGFeb 28 · first

New Hampshire State AGFeb 28 · first

Maryland State AGFeb 28 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Feb 28 (IN), last Mar 7 (MA) — a 7-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.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376451.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2025
Raw hash: 8318ac86ec2418544ff96eaef27ae51527ff6582b8a7f45ee70c34a42812d6c8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityConstangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Victim entityChemeketa Community College

Incidentdiscovered Jan 13, 2025

Stated responseBegan an investigation to determine what happened and what data was involved

ComplianceMD AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov