AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowActive

Bowdoin College

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 31, 2020

Filed

Jun 17, 2020

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Bowdoin College →3 incidents on file

Bowdoin College notified NH AG of a data breach affecting 5 NH residents. On Jan 31, 2020, an employee discovered PII inadvertently included in a financial aid comparison spreadsheet. Notices mailed starting June 16, 2020. Investigation ongoing; credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 138 days

Jan 31, 2020

Discovered

Jun 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5 affectedView incident

Name: Bowdoin College
norm: bowdoin college

Name: Bowdoin College
norm: bowdoin college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 31, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 16, 2020
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Provided notice by mail to state residents
Offering free credit monitoring and identity protection services to potentially affected individuals
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(138 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/bowdoin-20200617.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 17, 2020
Raw hash: ecf9bfacb326d8139abc49cb7f38d47bead45138269c4d4d21bcfaa724548bd9

Reporting entityBowdoin College

Victim entityBowdoin College

Incidentdiscovered Jan 31, 2020

Stated responseProvided notice by mail to state residents

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov