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HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2019

Filed

Aug 13, 2019

To disclose

24 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology disclosed a security incident where an unauthorized party accessed an internal database via a web server. Access occurred between Dec 14, 2018, and Mar 22, 2019. Affected data included names, addresses, Institute IDs, DOBs, and SSNs. Georgia Tech engaged forensic firms, secured the server, and offered one year of credit monitoring via ID Experts. The incident was reported to the U.S. Department of Education.

Incident timeline

undetected · 77 days
discovery → filing · 24 weeks / 165 days

Dec 14, 2018

Begins

Mar 1, 2019

Discovered

Aug 13, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+15 wks slower

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filingsup to 83d gap

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗
Washington State AGMay 22 · first
California State AGMay 22 · first
Oregon State AGMay 22 · first
Montana State AGMay 22 · first
Delaware State AG+83d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 22 (WA), last Aug 19 (NH) — a 89-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.