AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Tufts University

bd_89a50c8f91de185c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 23, 2020

Filed

May 8, 2020

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Tufts University →7 incidents on file

Tufts University notified the NH AG of a data security incident involving 2 NH residents. Personal information, including SSNs, belonging to Boston School of Occupational Therapy alumni was accessible on public web pages managed by the Digital Collections and Archives department. The error occurred between May 2019 and February 2020. Data was removed on March 23, 2020. Credit monitoring was offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 297 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

May 31, 2019

Begins

Mar 23, 2020

Discovered

May 8, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

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

Massachusetts State AGbd_d57b2da53102e0ea2020-05-13 · +5dVerified
Montana State AGbd_60c0403ad85331262020-04-30 · +8dCandidate

Name: Tufts University
norm: tufts university
Domain: tufts.edu

Name: Tufts University
norm: tufts university
Domain: tufts.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 23, 2020
Breach occurred: May 31, 2019 – Feb 28, 2020
Undetected for: 297 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 30, 2020
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1074 Data Staged

During the incident: The webpages containing sensitive information were removed from public access upon discovery on March 23, 2020
DCA staff had removed all known Social Security numbers from its internal collection management database
WISP requirements were discussed with DCA staff
Tufts has arranged to provide 24 months of credit monitoring services to all affected individuals through Experian
Changes made: WISP requirements were discussed with DCA staff
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 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 AGApr 30 · first

New Hampshire State AG+8d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+13d

Pattern: first filing Apr 30 (MT), last May 13 (MA) — a 13-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/tufts-university-20200508.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 8, 2020
Raw hash: a29cc5fa403586a9cb61cca1fd21bcf5738e1e793035cb8517c0aae01b648d36

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTufts University

Victim entityTufts University

Incidentdiscovered Mar 23, 2020

Stated responseThe webpages containing sensitive information were removed from public access upon discovery on March 23, 2020

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov