PhysicalEducationEducationTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighActive

Warren County Community College

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Severity

High

Discovered

Sep 27, 2011

Filed

Nov 1, 2011

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected · nationwide

5,4592 in this filing

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Warren County Community College →3 incidents on file

Warren County Community College reported the theft of a password-protected laptop containing student PII (names and SSNs). The laptop was reported missing on September 27, 2011. Two New Hampshire residents were affected; 5,459 individuals in other jurisdictions were notified. The College terminated remote access, engaged legal counsel, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 35 days

Sep 26, 2011

Begins

Sep 27, 2011

Discovered

Nov 1, 2011

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,459 affectedView incident

Name: Warren County Community College
norm: warren county community college
Domain: warren.edu
Industry: education

Name: Warren County Community College
norm: warren county community college
Domain: warren.edu
Industry: education
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 27, 2011
Breach occurred: Sep 26, 2011 – Sep 27, 2011
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 29, 2011
Affected individuals: 5,459state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney GeneralContacted New Jersey State Police

During the incident: Retained breach notification legal counsel, Nelson, Levine, de Luca & Horst, LLC
Terminated all remote access to its systems and databases from the missing laptop
Conducted an investigation of its computer network security
Contacted the New Jersey State Police
Notified local and state law enforcement agencies
Offered one year of credit monitoring services, identity fraud insurance and identity restoration assistance
Changes made: Evaluating data security policies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(35 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/warren-college-20111101.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 1, 2011
Raw hash: b57ae9908fd47e8b54115a738c302a3069b58933c26ed3fd52ad09eb577fde84

Reporting entityWarren County Community College

Victim entityWarren County Community College

Incidentdiscovered Sep 27, 2011

Stated responseRetained breach notification legal counsel, Nelson, Levine, de Luca & Horst, LLC

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov