Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

bd_b7916a3e57a1c19c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 30, 2023

Filed

Mar 1, 2023

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania →3 incidents on file

University of Pennsylvania notified affected individuals of a data security incident where an employee's email account was compromised via suspicious activity (likely phishing) between August 13, 2022, and October 24, 2022. Personal information including names, addresses, SSNs, phone numbers, and email addresses may have been exposed. The university engaged third-party experts, reset passwords, implemented safeguards, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 170 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Aug 13, 2022

Begins

Jan 30, 2023

Discovered

Mar 1, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

Name: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
norm: the trustees of the university of pennsylvania
Domain: upenn.edu

Name: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
norm: the trustees of the university of pennsylvania
Domain: upenn.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 30, 2023
Breach occurred: Aug 13, 2022 – Oct 24, 2022
Undetected for: 170 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 1, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Consulted with cybersecurity experts
Consulted with third-party cyber experts
Password reset
Implementing additional safeguards
Offering 12-month membership of credit monitoring services
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards
Steps to further protect and strengthen the security of our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-88.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 1, 2023
Raw hash: 3c05d275b513d53cf75171537ceb8e18107058fc5074474ab3eb558017afef1a

Reporting entityThe Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

Victim entityThe Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

Incidentdiscovered Jan 30, 2023

Stated responseConsulted with cybersecurity experts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov