HackingEducationEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHealth (basic)MediumContained

Chemeketa Community College

bd_a5b6b92b2724ec47 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 13, 2025

Filed

Feb 28, 2025

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Chemeketa Community College →

Chemeketa Community College notified Vermont residents of a data breach involving third-party vendor Carruth Compliance Consulting. Unauthorized access occurred on December 21, 2024, and was discovered on January 13, 2025. Affected data includes names, Social Security numbers, financial account info, and limited medical billing/tax data for employees.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 23 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Jan 13, 2025

Discovered

Feb 28, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Carruth Compliance Consulting supply-chain incident (2025) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_0ce41b3eecfd9cfc2025-02-28Verified
Maryland State AGbd_28c86a7560489d552025-02-28Verified
Oregon State AGbd_37605f8c85948e972025-02-28Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_703d4da85284a6092025-03-07 · +7dCandidate

Name: Chemeketa Community College
norm: chemeketa community college
Domain: chemeketa.edu

Name: Chemeketa Community College
norm: chemeketa community college
Domain: chemeketa.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 13, 2025
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 23 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Began investigating and sought information from Carruth about the Incident
Worked to identify all current and former employees whose personal information was shared with Carruth
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGFeb 28 · first

Maryland State AGFeb 28 · first

Oregon State AGFeb 28 · first

Vermont State AGFeb 28 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Feb 28 (IN), last Mar 7 (MA) — 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.

Source URL: https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-02-28-chemeketa-community-college-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2025
Raw hash: 20185f9075aa4d56bb189c944e29015d7fdf6978b62cb41c8662b8b2aef075a8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChemeketa Community College

Victim entityChemeketa Community College

Incidentdiscovered Jan 13, 2025

Stated responseNotified the Federal Bureau of Investigation

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov