AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Haverford College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 2, 2016

Filed

Jan 20, 2017

To disclose

24 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Haverford College →3 incidents on file

Haverford College notified the NH AG of a misconfigured Google Group that exposed vendor PII (names, addresses, SSNs) to the college community. Discovered Aug 2, 2016. One NH resident affected. No evidence of actual misuse. Remediation included shutting down the group and offering credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 24 weeks / 171 days

Aug 2, 2016

Discovered

Jan 20, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Haverford College
norm: haverford college

Name: Haverford College
norm: haverford college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Aug 2, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 9, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Regulator citations: Provided notice to the New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Haverford IT immediately re-set the permissions on the Group to prevent any continued unauthorized access
Shut the Group down to ensure the security of its vendor data
Reviewed the contents of the Google Group to determine whether any personal information was accessible
Providing its affected vendors notice of this incident
Providing one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian
Implemented new procedures for the handling of vendor information
Changes made: Implemented new procedures for the handling of vendor information to better protect personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 24 weeks(171 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/haverford-college-20170110.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 20, 2017
Raw hash: 6894735426c2db8c2b668651970209d48fd61e4d015130279fbbdf3047887469

Reporting entityHaverford College

Victim entityHaverford College

Incidentdiscovered Aug 2, 2016

Stated responseHaverford IT immediately re-set the permissions on the Group to prevent any continued unauthorized access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov