HackingEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 19, 2024

Filed

Oct 28, 2025

To disclose

49 weeks

Affected

57state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium →

Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium (GMHEC) notified the NH AG of a breach affecting 57 NH residents. Unauthorized access to two employee email accounts occurred Oct 30–Nov 20, 2024. Data included names, SSNs, and health info. GMHEC engaged forensic firm CFC Response, secured email, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via TransUnion.

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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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_2e095862dd9d9c722025-10-28Candidate
Maine State AGbd_839357b382bf342b2025-10-28Verified
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: Kennedys CMK LLP
norm: kennedys cmk

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: 57state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took immediate action to secure email environment
Engaged our law firm
Retained CFC Security, Inc. d/b/a/ CFC Response, a cyber forensics specialist firm
Engaged in a data mining process to identify that personal information
Engaged in contact information research
Ran a national-change-of-address (NCOA) search
Notified fifty-seven (57) New Hampshire residents via U.S. mail
Offered an opportunity to enroll in 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services through CyberScout
Set up a professional call center through TransUnion
Changes made: Reviewing its existing security policies and protections
Adopting 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: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Montana State AGOct 28 · first

Maine State AGOct 28 · first

New Hampshire 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/green-mountain-higher-education-consortium-20251028.pdf
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: 65fdf83f6aa53dde74b3342d64a51280f7ceba5d33897d8e11148d20235449ed

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKennedys CMK LLP

Victim entityGreen Mountain Higher Education Consortium

Incidentdiscovered Nov 19, 2024

Stated responseTook immediate action to secure email environment

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov