PhysicalEducationEducationLossCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

New Hampshire Technical Institute

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 23, 2008

Filed

May 30, 2008

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

28state residents only

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for New Hampshire Technical Institute →

New Hampshire Technical Institute notified the NH Attorney General on May 30, 2008, of a missing USB flash drive discovered on April 23, 2008. The drive potentially contained PII (names, SSNs, addresses, phone, email) of 28 nursing program graduates from 2006-2007. The Institute could not determine if a breach occurred but notified affected individuals and provided one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 37 days

Apr 23, 2008

Discovered

May 30, 2008

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed28 affectedView incident

Name: New Hampshire Technical Institute
norm: new hampshire technical institute
Domain: nhli.edu

Name: New Hampshire Technical Institute
norm: new hampshire technical institute
Domain: nhli.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 23, 2008
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 30, 2008
Affected individuals: 28state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General of New Hampshire

During the incident: Campus Safety Department conducted a thorough investigation to locate the flash drive
Sent direct notification to the affected individuals
Obtained the services of a credit monitoring organization to provide free credit monitoring for one year
Provided a contact point at NHTI to address affected individuals' questions and concerns
Recommended that the affected individuals take steps to protect themselves from the possible misuse of personal information
Changes made: Instituted safeguards to prevent such incidents in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(37 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/nh-technical-institute-20080530.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 30, 2008
Raw hash: f23ce64dda8601191b04395705c8d1d8ec744647c5b9b973bc655d6684a1acaf

Reporting entityNew Hampshire Technical Institute

Victim entityNew Hampshire Technical Institute

Incidentdiscovered Apr 23, 2008

Stated responseCampus Safety Department conducted a thorough investigation to locate the flash drive

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov