HackingVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)TargetedIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
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Full breach record for NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY →Northeastern University notified consumers of a data breach where an unauthorized third party exploited a vulnerability in Salesloft Drift to access the Salesforce environment. The incident occurred between August 12 and 17, 2025. Personal information (names and data elements) was accessed; no credentials, SSNs, or financial data were compromised. 58 Rhode Island residents were identified as affected. Northeastern terminated access, engaged forensic analysts, and is evaluating security enhancements.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday10 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-10-31-northeastern-university-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 31, 2025
- Raw hash
- c0cbfdb5424c419370adfe84d1781a87f6d8f88097d83d9d4b5bf7987d2f7274
Reporting entity
- Name
- NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYnorm: northeastern university
Victim entity
- Name
- NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYnorm: northeastern university
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 24, 2025
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Third-Party / Supply Chain
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(68 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bday
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.