HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedFinancial accountPIILowContained

Western Technical College

bd_7dda424e6ab84344 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 3, 2019

Filed

May 21, 2019

To disclose

18 days

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Western Technical College →2 incidents on file

Western Technical College notified affected individuals that a third-party service provider, PrismRBS, experienced a security breach. Between April 13 and April 26, 2019, an unauthorized party installed malicious code on PrismRBS servers hosting the college's online bookstore to capture payment card information. The college engaged forensic investigators and enhanced security measures.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 20 days

discovery → filing · 18 days

Apr 13, 2019

Begins

May 3, 2019

Discovered

May 21, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: Western Technical College
norm: western technical college
Domain: westerntc.edu

Name: Western Technical College
norm: western technical college
Domain: westerntc.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 3, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 13, 2019 – Apr 26, 2019
Undetected for: 20 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Financial accountPII
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1056 Input CaptureT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Third party: via PrismRBS
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Hired an outside expert IT forensics firm to respond to and investigate the incident
Enhanced the security of its systems, including implementing additional threat monitoring and detection tools
Enabled two-factor authentication on its internal email system
Engaged an independent IT security firm to perform a comprehensive audit of its systems
Notified its credit card payment processor of the incident
Changes made: Offering one year of identity protection services through IdentityWorks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 days(18 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notice-15.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 21, 2019
Raw hash: 01f61d6e7472585fa47827a666e6ea29365f4958f69bbb651e8b27c401e25438

Reporting entityWestern Technical College

Victim entityWestern Technical College

Incidentdiscovered May 3, 2019

Stated responseHired an outside expert IT forensics firm to respond to and investigate the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov