Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Tufts University

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 26, 2025

Filed

Aug 15, 2025

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Tufts University →7 incidents on file

Tufts University notified Vermont AG of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between Feb 15 and Apr 4, 2025. Attackers accessed emails containing names and financial account info of a limited number of individuals. Incident discovered March 26, 2025. Tufts reset passwords, notified law enforcement, and implemented additional safeguards.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday20 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 · 39 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 142 days

Feb 15, 2025

Begins

Mar 26, 2025

Discovered

Aug 15, 2025

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE
norm: trustees of tufts college

Name: Tufts University
norm: tufts university
Domain: tufts.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 26, 2025
Breach occurred: Feb 15, 2025 – Apr 4, 2025
Undetected for: 39 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 15, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notified law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation
Reset the password to the email accounts
Notified law enforcement
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures to further protect and monitor our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(142 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 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.

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/2025-08-15-trustees-tufts-college-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 15, 2025
Raw hash: 44b580802df2079cee6ba134c40ba1befffa42d5419424f5b8fbcac3e9051e2b

Reporting entityTRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE

Victim entityTufts University

Incidentdiscovered Mar 26, 2025

Stated responseLaunched an investigation

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov