AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumResolved

Thomas Nelson Community College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 9, 2015

Filed

Dec 18, 2015

To disclose

9 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Thomas Nelson Community College →

Thomas Nelson Community College notified affected individuals that on December 8, 2015, their confidential student information (including SSN, DOB, grades, and PII) was mistakenly emailed to eleven current nursing students. The college discovered the incident on December 9, 2015, contacted recipients to delete the data, and offered one year of Experian ProtectMyID services. No misuse was indicated.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 9 days

Dec 8, 2015

Begins

Dec 9, 2015

Discovered

Dec 18, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

Name: Thomas Nelson Community College
norm: thomas nelson community college

Name: Thomas Nelson Community College
norm: thomas nelson community college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 9, 2015
Breach occurred: Dec 8, 2015
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 9, 2015
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1534 Internal Remote Services
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Contacted email recipients and directed them to permanently delete the information
Offered complimentary one-year membership to Experian’s ProtectMyID
Provided additional communication to faculty and staff on handling sensitive information
Enhanced existing security awareness training
Changes made: Provided additional communication to faculty and staff on handling sensitive information
Enhanced existing security awareness training with the inclusion of additional instructions on handling sensitive information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Thomas-Nelson-Community-College.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 18, 2015
Raw hash: f91964c622a493a12b0be703b10a3f6f9efebeef43347c2914c0276ac3942480

Reporting entityThomas Nelson Community College

Victim entityThomas Nelson Community College

Incidentdiscovered Dec 9, 2015

Stated responseContacted email recipients and directed them to permanently delete the information

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov