HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

LEE UNIVERSITY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2024

Filed

Mar 25, 2025

To disclose

13 months

Affected

112state residents only

Linked

15 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for LEE UNIVERSITY →

Lee University notified Montana residents of a March 2024 data breach caused by a third-party software vulnerability. The incident resulted in the unauthorized download of personal information, including names and government IDs. The university engaged cybersecurity experts, contained the breach, and offered 12-24 months of identity theft protection services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 months / 389 days

Mar 1, 2024

Begins

Mar 1, 2024

Discovered

Mar 25, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+47 wks slower

This filing is one of 15 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_300a9184d4bcd0812025-03-25Verified
Oregon State AGbd_8cdee20d984ad4d92025-03-25Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_04edd7df916f70a02025-03-26 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_37ece777e49ea0462025-03-26 · +1dVerified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 394d gap

Washington State AGbd_96bc7c394d2c81b32025-03-26 · +1dVerified
Washington State AGbd_b3e570950a87e26f2025-03-26 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_d5f5a1eec1591b7c2025-03-26 · +1dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_daa4525b9e17e7cc2025-03-24 · +1dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_999367d5f3b9dbb72025-03-31 · +6dVerified
Maryland State AGbd_81b8b7e84bde761c2026-04-23 · +394dVerified

Showing first 10 of 14 linked disclosures.

Name: LEE UNIVERSITY
norm: lee university

Name: LEE UNIVERSITY
norm: lee university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 24, 2025
Affected individuals: 112state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Launched an investigation with the support of industry-leading cybersecurity experts
Offering identity theft protection services through IDX
Reviewing existing policies and procedures and implementing enhanced security measures
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures and implementing enhanced security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 months(389 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

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Vermont State AGMar 24 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+1d

Montana State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

Maine State AG+2d

Washington State AG+2d

California State AG+2d

South Carolina State AG+7d

Maryland State AG+395d

Pattern: first filing Mar 24 (VT), last Apr 23 (MD) — a 395-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 14 — the full spread may be wider.

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/2025/04/Consumer-notification-letter-32.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 25, 2025
Raw hash: 2cd86f33ac39f78a6ee257371d5e9daec22757a2f89a99898ec7b5564aef1eb4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLEE UNIVERSITY

Victim entityLEE UNIVERSITY

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2024

Stated responseLaunched an investigation with the support of industry-leading cybersecurity experts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov