HackingEducationEducationCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMinorMediumContained

Zane State College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 10, 2021

Filed

Jun 22, 2021

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

6state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Zane State College →2 incidents on file

Zane State College notified Montana regulators of unauthorized access to computer systems between March 25-29, 2021. The incident may have exposed names, addresses, SSNs, and minor children's data. The college reported to federal law enforcement and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via Experian.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 46 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 43 days

Mar 25, 2021

Begins

May 10, 2021

Discovered

Jun 22, 2021

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6 affectedView incident

Name: Zane State College
norm: zane state college

Name: Zane State College
norm: zane state college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 10, 2021
Breach occurred: Mar 25, 2021 – Mar 29, 2021
Undetected for: 46 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 22, 2021
Affected individuals: 6state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDMinor
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: prompt reporting to federal law enforcement

During the incident: Prompt reporting to federal law enforcement
Reviewing our existing policies and procedures relating to data protection and security
Investigating additional security measures to mitigate any risk associated with this incident
Providing notice of this event to potentially impacted individuals and to state regulators
Providing you with twelve (12) months of complimentary access to credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian
Changes made: Reviewing our existing policies and procedures relating to data protection and security
Investigating additional security measures to mitigate any risk associated with this incident and to better prevent future incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(43 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/a-notif-15.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 22, 2021
Raw hash: 7594db001536e286036e93d70677d36f6cfbdf14f57b18f926216f3c6d8d4bca

Reporting entityZane State College

Victim entityZane State College

Incidentdiscovered May 10, 2021

Stated responsePrompt reporting to federal law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov