Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Kentucky Wesleyan College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 10, 2017

Filed

May 3, 2017

To disclose

23 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Kentucky Wesleyan College →3 incidents on file

Wesleyan College notified affected individuals that an unauthorized individual gained access to an employee's email account on April 10, 2017, potentially exposing names, DOBs, Wesleyan IDs, and SSNs. The college secured the account, reset passwords, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 23 days

Apr 10, 2017

Discovered

May 3, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_b4d9805e417e063d2017-05-03Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ed84fc12ae9b7da62017-05-04 · +1dVerified

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 10, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 28, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email account
Reset passwords
Began an investigation
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Enhancing existing security protocols
Re-educating employees regarding phishing emails
Changes made: Enhancing existing security protocols
Re-educating employees regarding phishing emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 23 days(23 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGMay 3 · first

Montana State AGMay 3 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/Wesleyan-College.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 3, 2017
Raw hash: 527e2afacc83c21a139e67fa867cc182e96d3679ef96db3e8033d02f7498b86f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Victim entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Incidentdiscovered Apr 10, 2017

Stated responseSecured the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov