AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

University of New Hampshire [UNH]

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 6, 2007

Filed

Aug 17, 2007

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

29state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for University of New Hampshire [UNH] →4 incidents on file

University of New Hampshire notified NH AG of a data breach where a spreadsheet containing names and SSNs of 29 graduate students was inadvertently posted to a university website on April 17, 2007. The file was discovered on July 6, 2007, and removed. Notices were mailed on August 17, 2007, offering one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 80 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Apr 17, 2007

Begins

Jul 6, 2007

Discovered

Aug 17, 2007

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed29 affectedView incident

Name: University of New Hampshire [UNH]
norm: university of new hampshire unh
Domain: unh.edu

Name: University of New Hampshire [UNH]
norm: university of new hampshire unh
Domain: unh.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 6, 2007
Breach occurred: Apr 17, 2007
Undetected for: 80 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 17, 2007
Affected individuals: 29state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Removed the file from the website
Contacted Google to remove cached copy
Contacted Yahoo! to remove outdated link
Arranged for a credit monitoring service to assist affected individuals
Partnered with ConsumerInfo.com, an Experian company, to provide a full year of credit monitoring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/university-nh-20070817.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 17, 2007
Raw hash: 1ec79ea8e3f80c7881f75f1914551e5ac66ffb2c6f906dd227ee1c07e3b40031

Reporting entityUniversity of New Hampshire [UNH]

Victim entityUniversity of New Hampshire [UNH]

Incidentdiscovered Jul 6, 2007

Stated responseRemoved the file from the website

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov