HackingVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICCREDENTIALSLowContained
The Chronicle
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Full breach record for The Chronicle →The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. disclosed a data breach affecting online accounts on chronicle.com, philanthropy.com, and chroniclevitae.com. Unauthorized parties exploited a server vulnerability to access account information, including names, emails, usernames, and passwords (some in plain text). The company reset passwords, replaced the affected server, and notified law enforcement.
California clockDiscovered Jun 19, 2020 → Notified Jul 9, 202020d ✓ CA 60-day OK21 days 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.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_109cd63629957e5bCalifornia State AGfiled 2020-05-13(58d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-191927
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jul 10, 2020
- Raw hash
- f8538d394546df2148f603c0e12dce02b6bfae4161ab679524c60139c5e5b7b8
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Chroniclenorm: the chronicle
- Domain
- thechronicle.com
Victim entity
- Name
- The Chroniclenorm: the chronicle
- Domain
- thechronicle.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jun 19, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 9, 2020
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICCREDENTIALS
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- law enforcement was notified
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 20d
- 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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Jun 19, 2020→ Notified: Jul 9, 202020d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.