Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

Kalamazoo College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 29, 2016

Filed

May 11, 2016

To disclose

12 days

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Kalamazoo College →

Kalamazoo College notified the NH AG of a phishing incident where an employee inadvertently forwarded W-2 forms containing SSNs and earnings to attackers. Discovered April 29, 2016. 2 NH residents affected. FBI and IRS notified. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 12 days

Apr 28, 2016

Begins

Apr 29, 2016

Discovered

May 11, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_bf0e7408a4b3674a2016-05-11Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_5042db5184f644732016-05-16 · +5dVerified

Name: Kalamazoo College
norm: kalamazoo college

Name: Kalamazoo College
norm: kalamazoo college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 29, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 28, 2016 – Apr 28, 2016
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 11, 2016
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the IRSNotified federal law enforcement (FBI)Notified state police (Michigan State Police)Notified state taxing authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the IRS, FBI, and Michigan State Police
Provided an email notification to affected employees
Began mailing notification letters to home addresses
Offered two years of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through AllClear
Changes made: Aggressively analyzing where policy and process changes are needed
Analyzing additional automated technology solutions
Supplementing existing employee training with additional training on protecting personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 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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Montana State AGMay 11 · first

New Hampshire State AGMay 11 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing May 11 (MT), last May 16 (MA) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/kalamazoo-college-20160511.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 11, 2016
Raw hash: 13a00e8fd96709d87bfb725dc4cc132a4619898755da482a4f97376641f5c329

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKalamazoo College

Victim entityKalamazoo College

Incidentdiscovered Apr 29, 2016

Stated responseNotified the IRS, FBI, and Michigan State Police

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov