HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)CredentialsMediumContained

Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 19, 2024

Filed

Oct 28, 2025

To disclose

49 weeks

Affected · nationwide

3,18437 in this filing

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium →

Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium reported an external system breach (hacking) affecting 3,184 individuals, including 37 Maine residents. Unauthorized access to employee email accounts occurred between Oct 30 and Nov 20, 2024, discovered on Nov 19, 2024. Personal info and credentials were exposed. The organization engaged forensic professionals, secured the email environment, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via TransUnion.

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Maine clockDiscovered Nov 19, 2024 → Filed with AG Oct 28, 2025343d ✗ ME AG >90d49 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 20 days

discovery → filing · 49 weeks / 343 days

Oct 30, 2024

Begins

Nov 19, 2024

Discovered

Oct 28, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+40 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_2e095862dd9d9c722025-10-28Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_87ae2a443c10c16d2025-10-28Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_0c458df622390c142025-10-29 · +1dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_4c9abb5f745f96212025-10-29 · +1dVerified

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Nebraska State AGbd_9fb496dadb027f332025-10-29 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_e7abcb99918b2bd52025-10-29 · +1dVerified

Name: Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium
norm: green mountain higher education consortium

Name: Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium
norm: green mountain higher education consortium
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Nov 19, 2024
Breach occurred: Oct 30, 2024 – Nov 20, 2024
Undetected for: 20 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 29, 2025
Affected individuals: 3,184state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Partnered with cyber incident response professionals
Took immediate action to secure our email environment
Offering access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing proactive fraud assistance
Changes made: Reviewing and updating our existing security policies and protections already in place on our network
Implemented additional security to safeguard against evolving threats moving forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 49 weeks(343 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: ME AG >90d · 343dME resident >180d · 344d
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
Maine
Discovered: Nov 19, 2024
→ Filed with AG: Oct 28, 2025
343d 90 days ME AG >90d
Maine
Discovered: Nov 19, 2024
→ Notified: Oct 29, 2025
344d 180 days ME resident >180d

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
Maine	Discovered: Nov 19, 2024 → Filed with AG: Oct 28, 2025	343d	90 days	ME AG >90d
Maine	Discovered: Nov 19, 2024 → Notified: Oct 29, 2025	344d	180 days	ME resident >180d

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Montana State AGOct 28 · first

New Hampshire State AGOct 28 · first

Maine State AGOct 28 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Vermont State AG+1d

Nebraska State AG+1d

Indiana 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://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/78508eab-7567-4d6a-987f-40b53bb44b0e.html
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 28, 2025
Raw hash: 4870bbbf0829c40f9492c8e6c83bfac7e93a4e24eb4108f9c341bcd770560045

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGreen Mountain Higher Education Consortium

Victim entityGreen Mountain Higher Education Consortium

Incidentdiscovered Nov 19, 2024

Stated responsePartnered with cyber incident response professionals

ComplianceME AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.maine.gov