Social EngineeringPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPIIIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
Columbia College
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Full breach record for Columbia College →Columbia College of South Carolina notified individuals of a March 2021 incident where an employee email account was accessed without authorization, likely via phishing. The college engaged a digital forensics firm, secured the email system, and reported the matter to law enforcement. Personal information, including names, was accessed. The college offered one year of complimentary identity protection services through IDX to affected individuals.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2021/ColumbiaCollege.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 4, 2021
- Raw hash
- 24d701cc140ca1cf8c33ac26cdcb85a755d93342456bd3a33dbb3b95ad41cab4
Reporting entity
- Name
- Columbia Collegenorm: columbia college
- Domain
- columbiasc.edu
Victim entity
- Name
- Columbia Collegenorm: columbia college
- Domain
- columbiasc.edu
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 15, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 22, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- PIIIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- reported this matter to law enforcement
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 33 weeks(234 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.