HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 19, 2024

Filed

Oct 29, 2025

To disclose

49 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium →

Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium notified consumers of a data breach involving unauthorized access to two employee email accounts between Oct 30 and Nov 20, 2024. The incident exposed names and other personal information. The consortium engaged forensic investigators, secured the email environment, and offered credit monitoring services.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday49 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 · 20 days

discovery → filing · 49 weeks / 344 days

Oct 30, 2024

Begins

Nov 19, 2024

Discovered

Oct 29, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+41 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_0c458df622390c142025-10-29Verified
Nebraska State AGbd_9fb496dadb027f332025-10-29Verified
Indiana State AGbd_e7abcb99918b2bd52025-10-29Verified
Montana State AGbd_2e095862dd9d9c722025-10-28 · +1dCandidate

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Maine State AGbd_839357b382bf342b2025-10-28 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_87ae2a443c10c16d2025-10-28 · +1dVerified

Name: Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium
norm: green mountain higher education consortium

Name: Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium
norm: green mountain higher education consortium
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Nov 19, 2024
Breach occurred: Oct 30, 2024 – Nov 20, 2024
Undetected for: 20 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 29, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took immediate action to secure our email environment
Partnered with cyber incident response professionals to investigate the incident
Underwent a comprehensive data review
Offering access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing proactive fraud assistance
Changes made: Reviewing and updating our existing security policies and protections already in place on our network
Implemented additional security to safeguard against evolving threats moving forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 49 weeks(344 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Montana State AGOct 28 · first

Maine State AGOct 28 · first

New Hampshire State AGOct 28 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Nebraska State AG+1d

Indiana State AG+1d

Vermont State AG+1d · this page

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-10-29-green-mountain-higher-education-consortium-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 29, 2025
Raw hash: aa96e1938ed05b1752d62f096825a6750f782f30533c349edeb6567bc82b8941

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGreen Mountain Higher Education Consortium

Victim entityGreen Mountain Higher Education Consortium

Incidentdiscovered Nov 19, 2024

Stated responseTook immediate action to secure our email environment

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov