DisclosureLens
HackingEducationCustomer Data InvolvedPIIFinancial accountFinancial credentialsLowResolved

Association of American Colleges and Universities

bd_a281639d582ce044 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 20, 2020

Filed

Sep 21, 2020

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected · nationwide

1741 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Association of American Colleges and Universities →2 incidents on file

The Association of American Colleges and Universities reported an external system breach that occurred from April 18, 2020, to May 27, 2020. The breach was discovered on May 20, 2020. The compromised information included names in combination with financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers and their associated security codes or PINs. One Maine resident was affected and notified in writing on September 21, 2020. The organization offered one year of credit monitoring services through Epiq.

Maine clockDiscovered May 20, 2020 → Filed with AG Sep 21, 2020124d ✗ ME AG >90d18 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 32 days
discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 124 days

Apr 18, 2020

Begins

May 20, 2020

Discovered

Sep 21, 2020

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGSep 21 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Sep 21 (ME), last Sep 28 (NH) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.