HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Pension Benefit Information, LLC

bd_b22493cdf18d21a5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

May 29, 2023

Filed

Aug 24, 2023

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

12,415state residents only

Confidence

66%

Edmonds College reported a breach involving Pension Benefit Information, LLC (PBI). PBI's MOVEit Transfer server was exploited by an unauthorized third party on May 29-30, 2023, exfiltrating names, SSNs, DOBs, genders, and addresses. 12,415 Washington residents were affected. PBI offered 24 months of identity monitoring.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d12 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 87 days

May 29, 2023

Begins

May 29, 2023

Discovered

Aug 24, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed12,415 affectedView incident

Name: Edmonds College
norm: edmonds college

Name: Pension Benefit Information, LLC
norm: pension benefit information
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 29, 2023
Breach occurred: May 29, 2023 – May 30, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 12,415state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the MOVEit vulnerability’s impact on our systems
Conducted a manual review of our records to confirm the identities of individuals potentially affected
Offering 24 months of complimentary identity monitoring services through Kroll
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our internal controls on security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(87 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
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.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA26337.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 24, 2023
Raw hash: 2913b7d38434bf9faecc31a571a5be623bbfee67e2227c59f138cb31dc1b6ea1

Reporting entityEdmonds College

Victim entityPension Benefit Information, LLC

Incidentdiscovered May 29, 2023

Stated responseLaunched an investigation into the nature and scope of the MOVEit vulnerability’s impact on our systems

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com