AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Franklin and Marshall College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 19, 2015

Filed

Apr 2, 2015

To disclose

14 days

Affected · nationwide

3561 in this filing

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Franklin and Marshall College →2 incidents on file

Franklin & Marshall College notified NH AG of a data breach where an employee accidentally posted Excel files containing student names and SSNs to a public network. Files were available from March-June 2013. Incident discovered March 19, 2015. 356 individuals affected (1 NH resident). Kroll engaged for credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 722 days

discovery → filing · 14 days

Mar 27, 2013

Begins

Mar 19, 2015

Discovered

Apr 2, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed356 affectedView incident

Name: Franklin and Marshall College
norm: franklin and marshall college

Name: Franklin and Marshall College
norm: franklin and marshall college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 19, 2015
Breach occurred: Mar 27, 2013 – Jun 13, 2013
Undetected for: 722 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 15, 2015
Affected individuals: 356state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1074 Data Staged
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Removed the spreadsheets from public view
Began an investigation
Retained the services of Kroll to provide affected students with credit and identity monitoring services
Notifying all affected students of this incident
Changes made: Engaged Kroll to provide credit and identity services
Checked to ensure that no other student data was publicly available on eDisk
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/franklin-marshall-college-20150402.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 2, 2015
Raw hash: bb0493e7dc7dd5f199d3717b3115b68016a98b34ba02468b94e5d28cc36e1a73

Reporting entityFranklin and Marshall College

Victim entityFranklin and Marshall College

Incidentdiscovered Mar 19, 2015

Stated responseRemoved the spreadsheets from public view

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov