AccidentalEducationHealthcareEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 24, 2014

Filed

May 13, 2014

To disclose

19 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, INC. →

Hubbard-Bert, Inc., benefits administrator for Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), notified the NH AG of a misconfigured test server exposing student PII (SSN, DOB, name, email) to the internet. Discovered April 24, 2014. Files removed by April 25. One NH resident affected. Remediation included enhanced security protocols and offline testing servers.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 10 days

discovery → filing · 19 days

Apr 14, 2014

Begins

Apr 24, 2014

Discovered

May 13, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Hubbard-Bert, Inc.
norm: hubbard bert
Industry: Benefits Administration

Name: LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, INC.
norm: lake erie college of osteopathic medicine
Industry: Education
Industry: EducationllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: Apr 24, 2014
Breach occurred: Apr 14, 2014 – Apr 20, 2014
Undetected for: 10 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 25, 2014
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Immediately removed the files from its server
Launched an investigation
Notified all LECOM students by email
Worked diligently with Google to remove the information from its servers
Implemented enhanced security protocols for all of HB’s web servers
Installing a new off-line web server for all future testing purposes
Providing the affected students with a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert
Changes made: Enhanced security protocols for all of HB’s web servers have been implemented
Installing a new off-line web server for all future testing purposes
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 days(19 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/lake-erie-college-osteopathic-medicine-20140513.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 13, 2014
Raw hash: 045ab2e40ceb7d99a476cc08bad14356aed2f753fddebe67ac0055320bd6e030

Reporting entityHubbard-Bert, Inc.

Victim entityLAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 24, 2014

Stated responseImmediately removed the files from its server

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov