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Kentucky Wesleyan College

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 21, 2017

Filed

Jul 26, 2017

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Kentucky Wesleyan College →3 incidents on file

Kentucky Wesleyan College notified Montana AG of a phishing campaign in April 2017 where employees clicked links and entered credentials. An unknown actor accessed employee email accounts. Name and other data were accessible. No evidence of misuse found. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 96 days

Apr 21, 2017

Discovered

Jul 26, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

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_7c6179eab5018b962017-07-27 · +1dVerified

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 21, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 21, 2017
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIICredentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: providing notice... to certain regulators and consumer reporting agencies as required
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the employees’ email accounts
Launched an in-depth investigation
Working diligently with third-party forensic investigators
Partnered with Equifax to provide its Credit WatchTM Gold with 3-in-1 Monitoring identity theft protection product for one year at no charge
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(96 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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Montana State AGJul 26 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/Kentucky-Wesleyan-College.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 26, 2017
Raw hash: c5b95de1c69682c5b3d689f38e60489f2ef2c035de9c16dd04ab534cb211f254

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Victim entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Incidentdiscovered Apr 21, 2017

Stated responseSecured the employees’ email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov