HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

SIMPSON COLLEGE

bd_4972ea94249a7f15 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 17, 2023

Filed

Aug 12, 2024

To disclose

38 weeks

Affected · nationwide

1075 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for SIMPSON COLLEGE →

Simpson College notified Montana residents that a third-party vendor, Athletic Trainer System (ATS), experienced a breach affecting approximately 107 student athletes. The incident, occurring between Jan 2020 and Jan 2021, involved unauthorized access to PHI and PII. Simpson College is offering 12 months of credit monitoring via IDX.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1416 days

discovery → filing · 38 weeks / 269 days

Jan 1, 2020

Begins

Nov 17, 2023

Discovered

Aug 12, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+31 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_f2933a27b1d8ac6b2024-08-14 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_9c48f8534eb698aa2024-08-21 · +9dVerified

Name: SIMPSON COLLEGE
norm: simpson college

Name: SIMPSON COLLEGE
norm: simpson college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Nov 17, 2023
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021
Undetected for: 1,416 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 12, 2024
Affected individuals: 107state + nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: FBI prosecuting the threat actor
Third party: via Athletic Trainer System
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: ATS is working to implement multi-factor authentication for user accounts
Offering 12 months of credit and CyberScan monitoring through IDX
Providing $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy
Advising student athletes to change username, password, and security questions
Changes made: ATS implementing multi-factor authentication for user accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 38 weeks(269 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGAug 12 · first · this page

Indiana State AG+2d

Massachusetts State AG+9d

Pattern: first filing Aug 12 (MT), last Aug 21 (MA) — a 9-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.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-1592.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 12, 2024
Raw hash: fff5fecf1be0a8a358472abd293aabbdb2ba12404a6e689bcdfaf865e7aacc83

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySIMPSON COLLEGE

Victim entitySIMPSON COLLEGE

Incidentdiscovered Nov 17, 2023

Stated responseATS is working to implement multi-factor authentication for user accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov