HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Texas Wesleyan University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 6, 2023

Filed

Feb 12, 2024

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

5 records

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Texas Wesleyan University →

Texas Wesleyan University notified the NH Attorney General of a cybersecurity incident discovered on Oct 6, 2023. Unauthorized access to systems may have exposed sensitive personal information of 5 NH residents. Notifications were mailed Jan 24, 2024. TXWES engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, and enhanced security controls.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >30d18 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 129 days

Oct 6, 2023

Begins

Oct 6, 2023

Discovered

Feb 12, 2024

Filed

This filing is one of 5 records about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by cl0p about this victim was first seen 79 days before this filing.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitecl0pbd_e514341c78236cc62023-11-25 · +78dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_d12ddf10fe3107b82024-01-30 · +13dVerified by operator
Montana State AGbd_0e17c2357de3c9972023-11-20 · +84dVerified by operator
Maine State AGbd_0f5d664addff81e32024-07-29 · +168dVerified

Name: Texas Wesleyan University
norm: texas wesleyan university
Domain: txwes.edu

Name: Texas Wesleyan University
norm: texas wesleyan university
Domain: txwes.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Oct 6, 2023
Breach occurred: Oct 6, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 24, 2024
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disconnected all access to the network
Engaged a specialized third-party cybersecurity firm and IT personnel to assist with securing the environment
Conducted a comprehensive forensic investigation
Implemented an organization-wide credential rest of all community users
Increasing the minimum password length to 14 characters
Hardening firewall rules to strict explicit assignments for all inbound and outbound internet traffic
Adding WAF (“Web Application Firewall”) and secure DNS/DDOS protection
Working toward ensuring multi-factor authentication for all external access to web services
Adding additional security tools, including SentinelOne and Huntress
Offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through CyberScout
Changes made: Increasing the minimum password length to 14 characters
Hardening firewall rules to strict explicit assignments for all inbound and outbound internet traffic
Adding WAF (“Web Application Firewall”) and secure DNS/DDOS protection
Working toward ensuring multi-factor authentication for all external access to web services
Adding additional security tools, including SentinelOne and Huntress
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(129 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >30d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGNov 20 · first

Massachusetts State AG+71d

New Hampshire State AG+84d · this page

Maine State AG+252d

Pattern: first filing Nov 20 (MT), last Jul 29 (ME) — a 252-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/texas-wesleyan-university-20240212.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 12, 2024
Raw hash: 47da452ee6beb8e4ced966d5ea396e7e96b848a9d8bc4fa5e206a00e536f7f58

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTexas Wesleyan University

Victim entityTexas Wesleyan University

Incidentdiscovered Oct 6, 2023

Stated responseDisconnected all access to the network

ComplianceLeak >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov