AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDPIIMediumContained

Des Moines Area Community College

bd_4bac39c7faac228e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 7, 2020

Filed

Nov 9, 2020

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Des Moines Area Community College →

Des Moines Area Community College notified the NH AG of a data exposure where historical meeting minutes (1981-1993) posted online between Dec 2019 and May 2020 contained student SSNs. One NH resident was affected. The college took the records down, investigated, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 311 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Dec 1, 2019

Begins

Oct 7, 2020

Discovered

Nov 9, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_f86301a14f44d52c2020-11-04 · +5dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_a205eff3b2c429fe2020-10-30 · +10dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_be1bc5dc6245463d2020-11-24 · +15dVerified
Montana State AGbd_bcd3ea3e1e0d4cf22020-11-30 · +21dVerified by operator

Name: Des Moines Area Community College
norm: des moines area community college

Name: Des Moines Area Community College
norm: des moines area community college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Oct 7, 2020
Breach occurred: Dec 1, 2019 – May 8, 2020
Undetected for: 311 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 30, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Had the records taken down
Launched an investigation in consultation with outside data privacy professionals
Providing the affected resident with written notification
Offering the affected resident a complimentary one-year membership with a credit monitoring service
Changes made: Continually evaluates and modifies its practices and internal controls to enhance the security and privacy of personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGOct 30 · first

Maine State AG+5d

New Hampshire State AG+10d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+25d

Montana State AG+31d

Pattern: first filing Oct 30 (IN), last Nov 30 (MT) — a 31-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/des-moines-area-community-college-20201109.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 9, 2020
Raw hash: 89f4bdb0db11cd969e612c3b76bda4a8dcc2d76bd4e1c9f032041bd6a305a05f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDes Moines Area Community College

Victim entityDes Moines Area Community College

Incidentdiscovered Oct 7, 2020

Stated responseHad the records taken down

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov