MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Financial accountPIILowActive

The University of Vermont

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 25, 2019

Filed

Apr 1, 2019

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The University of Vermont →4 incidents on file

University of Vermont notified NH AG of a security incident involving its e-commerce vendor, PrismRBS. Unauthorized access to servers hosting the UVM Bookstore website resulted in the installation of malicious software capturing payment card information. Transactions between Jan 19-23, 2019 were affected. 9 NH residents impacted. Vendor investigation ongoing.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 66 days

Jan 19, 2019

Begins

Jan 25, 2019

Discovered

Apr 1, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

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

Part of PrismRBS supply-chain incident (2019) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ba64170ef069a44c2019-04-01Verified

Name: The University of Vermont
norm: the university of vermont
Domain: uvm.edu

Name: The University of Vermont
norm: the university of vermont
Domain: uvm.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 25, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 19, 2019 – Jan 23, 2019
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 1, 2019
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: Financial accountPII
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via PrismRBS
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: Provided notice to appropriate entities as required under applicable state laws
Provided notice to affected individuals directly
Offered credit monitoring services provided by PrismRBS
Changes made: Vendor implemented several additional security measures to help prevent this type of incident from reoccurring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(66 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 1 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 1 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/university-of-vermont-20190401.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 1, 2019
Raw hash: 4f5c46710171aa04c03d9006001428185ffd9b988acec06321f9718a00fa3e15

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe University of Vermont

Victim entityThe University of Vermont

Incidentdiscovered Jan 25, 2019

Stated responseProvided notice to appropriate entities as required under applicable state laws

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov