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HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

New York University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 22, 2025

Filed

Jun 9, 2025

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

420state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for New York University →
CorrectionPublished Oct 10, 2026

The Montana Department of Justice register lists this notice on 2024-06-09, before the breach it reports. The Nebraska, California, Oregon and Washington registers list the same notice on 2025-06-09, so we publish 2025-06-09 as the date it was filed.

Read their full statement

New York University notified individuals in Montana and other states of a data breach where unauthorized actors accessed systems and exfiltrated files containing names and Social Security numbers between October 2024 and March 2025. NYU discovered the incident on March 22, 2025, and offered one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.

Incident timeline

undetected · 153 days
discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 79 days

Oct 20, 2024

Begins

Mar 22, 2025

Discovered

Jun 9, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 8 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 8d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Jun 1 (IL), last Jun 10 (TX) — a 9-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.