HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowActive

Berkeley College

bd_9ea8a99c35b6222f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 31, 2016

Filed

Feb 6, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

10state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Berkeley College →

Berkeley College notified students, faculty, and staff of a breach discovered on Dec 31, 2016, where unauthorized third parties posted personal data (names, IDs, usernames, emails, temp passwords) on a public website. The FBI was contacted. No SSNs or financial data were involved. Investigation was ongoing.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 37 days

Dec 31, 2016

Discovered

Feb 6, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_9f34dbd441b96ff82017-02-06Verified

Name: Berkeley College
norm: berkeley college

Name: Berkeley College
norm: berkeley college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 31, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 10state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Reset all affected passwords
Contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Changes made: Provided notice to affected individuals
Provided information on credit report security freezes
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(37 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGFeb 6 · first

Montana State AGFeb 6 · first · this page

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/Berkeley.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 6, 2017
Raw hash: 71d637629973003df1ec2d0a4d3c41ea15805f28cb1d91f74901400c4e22ac6a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBerkeley College

Victim entityBerkeley College

Incidentdiscovered Dec 31, 2016

Stated responseReset all affected passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov