Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation

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Severity

High

Discovered

Feb 15, 2016

Filed

Mar 4, 2016

To disclose

18 days

Affected

2,047state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation →2 incidents on file

Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation notified NH AG of a security breach on March 4, 2016. On Feb 15, 2016, an employee was tricked by a caller posing as tech support into granting remote access. The attacker installed a Citrix program. 2,047 applicant records (names, addresses, SSNs) in unencrypted databases were potentially compromised. Notices were mailed by March 15, 2016.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 days

Feb 15, 2016

Discovered

Mar 4, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,047 affectedView incident

Name: Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation
norm: lakes region scholarship

Name: Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation
norm: lakes region scholarship
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Feb 15, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 15, 2016
Affected individuals: 2,047state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacted the Foundation's computer service provider
Shut all computers down
Mailed written notices to all potentially affected individuals
Provided notices to all nationwide consumer reporting agencies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 days(18 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/lakes-region-scholarship-20160304.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 4, 2016
Raw hash: bae8e44593fff06bdec4b0a81a2d52d7f09f6d2f13745c5b3211a220f5850a87

Reporting entityLakes Region Scholarship Foundation

Victim entityLakes Region Scholarship Foundation

Incidentdiscovered Feb 15, 2016

Stated responseContacted the Foundation's computer service provider

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov