HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Kent State University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 14, 2023

Filed

Jul 25, 2024

To disclose

32 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Kent State University →2 incidents on file

Kent State University notified Vermont AG of a third-party data breach involving vendor Keffer Development Services, LLC. An unauthorized party used brute-force methods to access administrative credentials for the Athletic Trainer Services (ATS) platform, exposing student-athlete PII including names, DOBs, SSNs, and health data. Kent State convened an IR team, reset passwords, and mandated stricter controls for Keffer. Complimentary credit monitoring was offered. No Kent State systems were directly compromised.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday32 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

discovery → filing · 32 weeks / 224 days

Dec 14, 2023

Discovered

Jul 25, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+23 wks slower

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

Name: Kent State University
norm: kent state university

Name: Kent State University
norm: kent state university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 14, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 24, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1110 Brute ForceT1078 Valid AccountsT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Vermont Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Kent State immediately convened an incident response team that included cybersecurity professionals
Kent State employees who use this program have reset their passwords, following more stringent complexity requirements
Offering complimentary access to Experian IdentityWorks
Law enforcement has been working to identify the bad actor
Changes made: Kent State is now requiring additional security controls and protocols from Keffer
Keffer will also be implementing additional account security controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 32 weeks(224 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/2024-07-25-kent-state-university-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 25, 2024
Raw hash: cb27d7d52557d6d54ae34a9317b277fd75ab0f1b7030f0b4c12cb1b2669490c6

Reporting entityKent State University

Victim entityKent State University

Incidentdiscovered Dec 14, 2023

Stated responseKent State immediately convened an incident response team that included cybersecurity professionals

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov