Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Stanly Community College

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 13, 2022

Filed

May 24, 2023

To disclose

45 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Stanly Community College →

Stanly Community College notified Vermont AG of a criminal cyberattack impacting a small number of employee email accounts. The threat actor accessed PII (names, data elements) during periods in 2021. The college engaged third-party experts, reset passwords, enabled MFA, and offered 12-24 months of identity theft protection via IDX.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday45 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 · 344 days

discovery → filing · 45 weeks / 315 days

Aug 3, 2021

Begins

Jul 13, 2022

Discovered

May 24, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+38 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_40d6ba47bff3d20a2023-05-24Verified
Maine State AGbd_c591da7f1fd930a72023-05-24Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_c5a00e96c0cf52602023-05-31 · +7dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_d0555e07284ffd6e2023-05-31 · +7dVerified

Name: Stanly Community College
norm: stanly community college

Name: Stanly Community College
norm: stanly community college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 13, 2022
Breach occurred: Aug 3, 2021 – Aug 17, 2022
Undetected for: 344 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 24, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Commenced an investigation of the Incident, with assistance from third party experts
Undertook the time- and resource-intensive steps of data mining and manually reviewing the contents of those accounts
Offering identify theft protection services through IDX, A ZeroFox Company
Reset all email passwords
Enabled multifactor authentication for all users
Upgraded the security of our email platform
Implemented continuous logging
Reviewing and updating our existing data security policies and procedures
Changes made: Reset all email passwords
Enabled multifactor authentication for all users
Upgraded the security of our email platform
Implemented continuous logging
Reviewing and updating our existing data security policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 45 weeks(315 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.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGMay 24 · first

Maine State AGMay 24 · first

Vermont State AGMay 24 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

New Hampshire State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing May 24 (IN), last May 31 (NH) — 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-05-24-stanly-community-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: May 24, 2023
Raw hash: bf9c7367bc1d8d528a6d79ba4e944dd4816484360f740dac5763c265dbb7d281

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityStanly Community College

Victim entityStanly Community College

Incidentdiscovered Jul 13, 2022

Stated responseCommenced an investigation of the Incident, with assistance from third party experts

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov