AccidentalGovernmentEducationGovernmentMisconfigurationTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Minnesota Office of Higher Education

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 2, 2014

Filed

Sep 19, 2014

To disclose

17 days

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Minnesota Office of Higher Education →

Minnesota Office of Higher Education notified New Hampshire AG of a coding error in the SELF Loan portal discovered Sept 2, 2014. Error allowed unauthorized viewing of student PII (SSN, name, email). 3 NH residents affected. Error corrected immediately; SSNs removed from site. No evidence of data misuse.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 days

Sep 2, 2014

Discovered

Sep 19, 2014

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: Minnesota Office of Higher Education
norm: minnesota office of higher education
Domain: ohe.state.mn.us

Name: Minnesota Office of Higher Education
norm: minnesota office of higher education
Domain: ohe.state.mn.us
Industry: GovernmentllmEducationllm

Discovered: Sep 2, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 23, 2014
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: The coding error was immediately corrected upon discovery
Social Security Numbers have been removed from the website where financial aid administrators access counseling information
Changes made: Social Security Numbers have been removed from the website where financial aid administrators access counseling information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 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/self-loan-20140919.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 19, 2014
Raw hash: 620a7050c93af9ca29b3ca2097265a4e0333ce1ff98ce8cd96b75d7a1cb1f12a

Reporting entityMinnesota Office of Higher Education

Victim entityMinnesota Office of Higher Education

Incidentdiscovered Sep 2, 2014

Stated responseThe coding error was immediately corrected upon discovery

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov