HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Kentucky Wesleyan College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 10, 2017

Filed

May 3, 2017

To disclose

23 days

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Kentucky Wesleyan College →3 incidents on file

Wesleyan College notified the NH Attorney General that an unauthorized individual accessed an employee's email account on April 10, 2017. The incident affected 4 NH residents, exposing names, DOBs, Wesleyan IDs, and SSNs. Wesleyan secured the account, reset passwords, and offered 1 year of Experian identity protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 23 days

Apr 10, 2017

Discovered

May 3, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_80bbdd704234d7fd2017-05-03Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_ed84fc12ae9b7da62017-05-04 · +1dVerified

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college

Name: Kentucky Wesleyan College
norm: kentucky wesleyan college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 10, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 3, 2017
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the email account
Reset passwords
Began an investigation
Began notifying individuals by U.S. Mail
Offering affected individuals one year of identity theft protection services through Experian
Established a dedicated hotline
Changes made: Reinforcing their information security training program
Reviewing their internal procedures related to email security and requests for disclosure of sensitive information
Enhancing existing security protocols
Re-educating our employees regarding phishing emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 23 days(23 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGMay 3 · first

New Hampshire State AGMay 3 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/wesleyan-college-20170503.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 3, 2017
Raw hash: d288e3ee2b10b840c1fef4db84c598a311dabd28bfa62ba2889524cb70b85953

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Victim entityKentucky Wesleyan College

Incidentdiscovered Apr 10, 2017

Stated responseSecured the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov