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Platt College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 7, 2017

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Platt College

Platt College, Los Angeles LLC experienced a data breach on January 13, 2017, due to a technical error that caused 1098T Tuition Statements to be mailed to incorrect student addresses. The statements contained names, last four digits of SSNs, tuition amounts, and scholarship/grant totals. The college notified affected students on January 30, 2017, requested return of the misdirected statements, and offered one year of complimentary credit monitoring via Experian.

Incident timeline

Jan 13, 2017

Begins

Feb 7, 2017

Filed

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

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.