AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

YALE UNIVERSITY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 30, 2011

Filed

Aug 9, 2011

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for YALE UNIVERSITY →6 incidents on file

Yale University notified the NH AG of a security breach involving names and SSNs of NH residents. An internal affiliate accessed a file via Google search on June 30, 2011. The file was misconfigured on an FTP server since July 2005 and became searchable by Google in Sept 2010. Yale is offering credit warnings and reviewing archival storage procedures.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 302 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 40 days

Sep 1, 2010

Begins

Jun 30, 2011

Discovered

Aug 9, 2011

Filed

vs. sector median

1 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_ffc5550f8a8101872011-08-12 · +3dVerified

Name: YALE UNIVERSITY
norm: yale university
Domain: yale.edu

Name: YALE UNIVERSITY
norm: yale university
Domain: yale.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jun 30, 2011
Breach occurred: Sep 1, 2010 – Jul 1, 2011
Undetected for: 302 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Offering credit warning services to affected consumers
Searching servers for similar archival files
Reviewing procedures regarding the storing of archival information
Reminding employees of the importance of protecting all files containing personal information
Changes made: Reviewing procedures regarding the storing of archival information
Reminding employees of the importance of protecting all files containing personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(40 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 AGAug 9 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/yale-university-20110809.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 9, 2011
Raw hash: b52e10452fc446fa344d33c80d843eab556c785f1fae0fb973d414a173416d6d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityYALE UNIVERSITY

Victim entityYALE UNIVERSITY

Incidentdiscovered Jun 30, 2011

Stated responseOffering credit warning services to affected consumers

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov