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Higher Education Servicing Corporation

bd_49129ef0e577ebcf · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Feb 15, 2021

Filed

Apr 5, 2021

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected · nationwide

23,79312 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Higher Education Servicing Corporation →

Higher Education Servicing Corporation ("HESC") experienced an external system breach that occurred from October 25, 2020, to January 4, 2021. The breach was discovered on February 15, 2021, and affected 12 Maine residents. The compromised data includes names combined with driver's license or state identification card numbers. HESC offered one year of credit monitoring services through Experian to the affected individuals.

Maine clockDiscovered Feb 15, 2021 → Filed with AG Apr 5, 202149d ⏱ ME AG >30d7 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 · 113 days
discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 49 days

Oct 25, 2020

Begins

Feb 15, 2021

Discovered

Apr 5, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGFeb 15 · first
Indiana State AG+49d
Massachusetts State AG+49d
Maine State AG+49d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 15 (MT), last Apr 5 (ME) — a 49-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.