AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPIIEDUCATIONLowResolved
Maine Community College System
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Full breach record for Maine Community College System →Maine Community College System had a technical error that merged student accounts of students with similar names, exposing academic/personal info. Incidents occurred March–October 2025; discovered January 21, 2026. Eight Maine residents affected. IT corrected the issue and restored records. Students notified March 25, 2026 and offered one year of credit monitoring.
Maine clockDiscovered Jan 21, 2026 → Filed with AG Mar 27, 202665d ⏱ ME AG >30d9 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed8 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/6b3c4514-7cbe-49ae-bcd2-c55319578dcc.html
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 27, 2026
- Raw hash
- a8f593f27b35605a4c5651bd500b9ef9312a481a6b48d55bef44c01ef05fd74f
Reporting entity
- Name
- Maine Community College Systemnorm: maine community college system
- Domain
- mainecc.edu
- Industry
- Education
Victim entity
- Name
- Maine Community College Systemnorm: maine community college system
- Domain
- mainecc.edu
- Industry
- Education
- Industry
- Educationllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 21, 2026
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 25, 2026
- Affected individuals
- 8
- Data types
- PIIEDUCATION
- Attack vector
- Insider
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 9 weeks(65 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- ME AG >30d · 65dME resident >60d · 63d
- Discovery-date grounding
- 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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status Maine Discovered: Jan 21, 2026→ Filed with AG: Mar 27, 202665d 30 days (soft) ME AG >30d Maine Discovered: Jan 21, 2026→ Notified: Mar 25, 202663d 60 days (analyst band; statutory cap is 30 days) ME resident >60d
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.