UnknownEducationEducationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Bennett College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 28, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Bennett College →2 incidents on file

Bennett College notified the California Attorney General of a data security breach affecting residents of California and several other states. The incident involved the exposure of personal information, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and bank account details. The college has remediated the event and is providing 12 months of credit monitoring and fraud assistance to affected individuals. No specific dates for the breach or discovery were provided in the available notice text.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 28, 2026

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by inc_ransom about this victim predates this filing by 265 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Siteinc_ransombd_5ffb0324c9f573b12025-12-05 · +265dCandidate

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Texas State AGbd_c6b933100e90cfa52026-09-01 · +4dVerified

Name: Bennett College
norm: bennett college
Domain: bennett.edu

Name: Bennett College
norm: bennett college
Domain: bennett.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Unknown

During the incident: Acted promptly to ensure this event was remediated
Providing access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge for 12 months
Providing proactive fraud assistance through Cyberscout
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >180d
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGAug 28 · first · this page

Texas State AG+4d

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-628990
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 28, 2026
Raw hash: 438b93c60ad659b55f637ffd86983503dfb686cf035248b7d9f4af73849e4706

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBennett College

Victim entityBennett College

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseActed promptly to ensure this event was remediated

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov