HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

LEE UNIVERSITY

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 1, 2024

Filed

Mar 31, 2025

To disclose

13 months

Affected

3,289state residents only

Linked

15 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for LEE UNIVERSITY →

Lee University notified South Carolina residents of a March 2024 security incident involving a third-party software vulnerability. The breach potentially exposed personal information including names and government IDs. The university engaged cybersecurity experts, contained the incident, and offered IDX identity protection services to affected individuals.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d13 months discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 months / 395 days

Mar 1, 2024

Begins

Mar 1, 2024

Discovered

Mar 31, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+48 wks slower

This filing is one of 15 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by medusa about this victim predates this filing by 347 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_04edd7df916f70a02025-03-26 · +5dVerified
Maine State AGbd_37ece777e49ea0462025-03-26 · +5dVerified
Washington State AGbd_96bc7c394d2c81b32025-03-26 · +5dVerified
Washington State AGbd_b3e570950a87e26f2025-03-26 · +5dVerified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 388d gap

California State AGbd_d5f5a1eec1591b7c2025-03-26 · +5dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_300a9184d4bcd0812025-03-25 · +6dVerified
Montana State AGbd_7e6cb9d5990cf5492025-03-25 · +6dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_8cdee20d984ad4d92025-03-25 · +6dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_daa4525b9e17e7cc2025-03-24 · +7dVerified
Maryland State AGbd_81b8b7e84bde761c2026-04-23 · +388dVerified

Showing first 10 of 14 linked disclosures.

Name: LEE UNIVERSITY
norm: lee university

Name: LEE UNIVERSITY
norm: lee university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 24, 2025
Affected individuals: 3,289state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Launched an investigation with the support of industry-leading cybersecurity experts
Offering identity theft protection services through IDX
Reviewing existing policies and procedures and implementing enhanced security measures
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures
Implementing enhanced security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 months(395 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >180dSC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗

Vermont State AGMar 24 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d

Montana State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+2d

Maine State AG+2d

Washington State AG+2d

California State AG+2d

South Carolina State AG+7d · this page

Maryland State AG+395d

Pattern: first filing Mar 24 (VT), last Apr 23 (MD) — a 395-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 14 — the full spread may be wider.

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/2025/LeeUniversity.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 31, 2025
Raw hash: eba6acd3c9fad32d160c24fd93c770b121927122c2ffec3b237e1e4f346c21ad

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLEE UNIVERSITY

Victim entityLEE UNIVERSITY

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2024

Stated responseLaunched an investigation with the support of industry-leading cybersecurity experts

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov