HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

New York University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 22, 2025

Filed

Jun 9, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

420state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for New York University →2 incidents on file

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.

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Jun 9, 2024

Filed

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Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed420 affectedView incident

Name: New York University
norm: new york university

Name: New York University
norm: new york university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 22, 2025
Breach occurred: Oct 20, 2024 – Mar 21, 2025
Undetected for: 153 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 15, 2025
Affected individuals: 420state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took measures to secure our information technology (“IT”) network
Launched an investigation
Arranged for you to receive an optional one-year membership in Identity Defense at no cost to you
Changes made: Continue to implement additional measures to enhance the security of our IT network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Consumer-notification-letter-47.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 9, 2024
Raw hash: 6d22b6313f31e722ca60b2579ed1d4fb6fd9ec4f3db616dfcdc142d20fdd2f1b

Reporting entityNew York University

Victim entityNew York University

Incidentdiscovered Mar 22, 2025

Stated responseTook measures to secure our information technology (“IT”) network

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov