DisclosureLens
HackingEducationEducationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

University of the People

bd_57d53b879077ad26 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 15, 2022

Filed

Apr 4, 2023

To disclose

15 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for University of the People3 incidents on file

University of the People notified consumers of a data security incident in mid-January 2022. Unauthorized third parties accessed or exfiltrated files from a SharePoint platform between January 2 and January 10, 2022. The files contained personal information, including names and government IDs. UoPeople engaged third-party experts, enhanced security, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

Vermont clock VT AG >45 bday15 months 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 · 13 days
discovery → filing · 15 months / 444 days

Jan 2, 2022

Begins

Jan 15, 2022

Discovered

Apr 4, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+56 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 11d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGMar 24 · first
Vermont State AG+11d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 24 (IN), last Apr 5 (ME) — a 12-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.