Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIICredentialsLowContained

Marist College

bd_6ac183d0b96bc550 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 11, 2023

Filed

May 8, 2024

To disclose

21 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Marist College →

Marist College notified consumers of a data incident detected on December 11, 2023, involving unauthorized access to a limited number of email accounts via a phishing campaign. The incident occurred between December 9 and 11, 2023. Personal information of affected individuals was potentially accessed. Marist College engaged security professionals, changed passwords, and implemented additional safeguards. No evidence of identity theft or fraud was found at the time of notification.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday21 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 · 2 days

discovery → filing · 21 weeks / 149 days

Dec 9, 2023

Begins

Dec 11, 2023

Discovered

May 8, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+13 wks slower

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

Name: Marist College
norm: marist college

Name: Marist College
norm: marist college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 11, 2023
Breach occurred: Dec 9, 2023 – Dec 11, 2023
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 8, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIICredentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: reporting this Incident to relevant government agencies
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed passwords
Implementing additional technical safeguards on top of our existing protections
Engaging data security and privacy professionals to assist our investigation and response
Blocking additional suspicious mail domains and associated websites
Setting alerts to monitor potentially affected email accounts
Reporting this Incident to relevant government agencies
Changes made: Add further technical safeguards to our existing protections
Secure our email environment
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 weeks(149 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.

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/2024-05-08-marist-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: May 8, 2024
Raw hash: c704d044afb1c83d91728d196928498550fc3b917bb17125a84c9bef4dfa70e5

Reporting entityMarist College

Victim entityMarist College

Incidentdiscovered Dec 11, 2023

Stated responseChanged passwords

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov