AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIMediumResolved

American Councils for International Education

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 28, 2021

Filed

Jun 1, 2021

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected · nationwide

37519 in this filing

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for American Councils for International Education →2 incidents on file

American Councils for International Education notified individuals of a data exposure occurring April 21-28, 2021. Program finalists were inadvertently granted administrator-level access to a database containing applicant records, including education, medical, and government ID data. 375 finalists accessed the database. American Councils terminated access, conducted an investigation, and revised user access controls.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 7 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 34 days

Apr 21, 2021

Begins

Apr 28, 2021

Discovered

Jun 1, 2021

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_4ce5e4c7799099972021-06-01Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_61726bc6158987f32021-06-01Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_f0b3045a5ecb0c442021-06-01Verified
Washington State AGbd_fe8ed06ddf59691e2021-06-01Verified

Name: American Councils for International Education
norm: american councils for international education

Name: American Councils for International Education
norm: american councils for international education
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 28, 2021
Breach occurred: Apr 21, 2021 – Apr 28, 2021
Undetected for: 7 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 18, 2021
Affected individuals: 375state + nationwide
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Medical information
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Terminated all access to the AIS Forms database
Conducted an internal investigation
Revised user profiles so that user access is the default access provided within the AIS Forms database
Ensuring that applicants, finalists and participants cannot be given administrator-level access
Conducted refresher training for all American Councils personnel
Changes made: Revised user profiles so that user access is the default access provided within the AIS Forms database
Ensuring that applicants, finalists and participants cannot be given administrator-level access
Conducted refresher training for all American Councils personnel who administer the database
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(34 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGJun 1 · first

Massachusetts State AGJun 1 · first

New Hampshire State AGJun 1 · first

Washington State AGJun 1 · first

Montana State AGJun 1 · first · this page

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/AC-Notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 1, 2021
Raw hash: f2cb8d4056b5a14fdab3a9c73b24aa6e5f42a462cb638ee8e01e791b77a32f2e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAmerican Councils for International Education

Victim entityAmerican Councils for International Education

Incidentdiscovered Apr 28, 2021

Stated responseTerminated all access to the AIS Forms database

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov