AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Alma College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 24, 2024

Filed

Sep 11, 2024

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Alma College →

Alma College disclosed an inadvertent data exposure on its internal SharePoint system from March 2023 to April 2024. The incident involved the mistaken publication of files containing names, SSNs, dates of birth, and health insurance information. The college engaged cybersecurity specialists, reviewed the scope, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday20 weeks 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 · 420 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 140 days

Mar 1, 2023

Begins

Apr 24, 2024

Discovered

Sep 11, 2024

Filed

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_2ac62fc8d939441e2024-09-11Candidate

Name: Alma College
norm: alma college

Name: Alma College
norm: alma college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 24, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2023 – Apr 24, 2024
Undetected for: 420 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 11, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection

During the incident: Launched a comprehensive investigation with the assistance of cybersecurity specialists
Performed a review of the disclosed files
Offering you access to 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian at no cost
Changes made: Evaluating our technical and administrative safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(140 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Indiana State AGSep 11 · first

Vermont State AGSep 11 · first · this page

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-09-11-alma-college-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 11, 2024
Raw hash: 866e6269faaa5f29f0c25569969b7c0d3e0b599e5d37fb96c6b73fd71c4f84ed

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAlma College

Victim entityAlma College

Incidentdiscovered Apr 24, 2024

Stated responseLaunched a comprehensive investigation with the assistance of cybersecurity specialists

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov