AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 23, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

American Councils for International Education notified students that Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) improperly shared student names, DOBs, and passport numbers with other students on the same study-abroad program between 2015 and Jan 2019. The incident was discovered recently; the involved KazNU employee was terminated. American Councils updated privacy practices and recommended fraud alerts.

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Incident timeline

Jan 1, 2015

Begins

Jan 23, 2019

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: American Councils for International Education
norm: american councils for international education

Name: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
norm: al-farabi kazakh national university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2015 – Jan 23, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 23, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Commenced an internal investigation
Took measures to prevent further dissemination of this data
Increase its students’ data security by working with KazNU to update its privacy and communication practices
The KazNU employee involved in the communications leading to the unauthorized sharing of personal data has been terminated
Changes made: Update its privacy and communication practices
Implementation of additional steps to ensure the security of our students’ personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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/American-Councils-for-International-Education-Al-Farabi-Kazakh-National-University.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 23, 2019
Raw hash: 100f0af2a45edadd3244223b3e43c30edb344d4719f3cb44d42322c4dfaefcbd

Reporting entityAmerican Councils for International Education

Victim entityAl-Farabi Kazakh National University

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseCommenced an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov