Social EngineeringHealthcareEducationHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)HighContained

Augusta University

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Severity

High

Discovered

Sep 11, 2017

Filed

Sep 4, 2018

To disclose

51 weeks

Affected

31,505state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Augusta University →

Augusta University notified affected individuals of a phishing attack in August 2018. The incident occurred September 10-11, 2017, when hackers used stolen credentials to access internal email accounts. Compromised data included names, SSNs, DOBs, driver's licenses, and PHI (medical records, diagnoses, etc.). The university disabled accounts, reset passwords, implemented MFA, and offered 1-year credit monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due51 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 · 1 days

discovery → filing · 51 weeks / 358 days

Sep 10, 2017

Begins

Sep 11, 2017

Discovered

Sep 4, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+39 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_f43e90777d0b6a632018-09-04Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_0e0888f2753c07572018-09-05 · +1dVerified

Name: Augusta University
norm: augusta university
Domain: augusta.edu

Name: Augusta University
norm: augusta university
Domain: augusta.edu
Industry: HealthcarellmEducationllm

Discovered: Sep 11, 2017
Breach occurred: Sep 10, 2017 – Sep 11, 2017
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 23, 2018
Affected individuals: 31,505state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabling the impacted email accounts
Requiring password changes for the compromised accounts
Maintaining heightened monitoring of the accounts
Working closely with external cybersecurity professionals
Changes made: Installing new leadership in a number of critical areas
Implementing multifactor authentication for off-campus email and system access
Review and adoption of solutions to limit email retention
Implementing policy and procedure changes regarding protected health information in email communications
Employing software to screen emails for protected health information or personally identifiable information to prevent them from sending
Increasing employee training on their critical role in preventing security breaches
Enhancing our compliance-related policies and procedures
Offering a free one-year membership for credit monitoring through Experian IdentityWorks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 51 weeks(358 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGSep 4 · first

South Carolina State AGSep 4 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2018/AugustaUniversity.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 4, 2018
Raw hash: 7c7728afbf592ca4ac4bb10159a459b3f664c8ec3a772e747e59b5e6786540dd

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAugusta University

Victim entityAugusta University

Incidentdiscovered Sep 11, 2017

Stated responseDisabling the impacted email accounts

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov