AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIHighActive

AUBURN UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION

bd_bb46a397be6f7f90 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 2, 2015

Filed

Apr 6, 2015

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

6,457state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for AUBURN UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION →6 incidents on file

Auburn University notified affected individuals in April 2015 that personal information (name, address, DOB, SSN, email, academic info) of students was inadvertently accessible on the internet since September 2014. The university discovered the issue on March 2, 2015, corrected it immediately, and engaged forensic experts. Experian was engaged to provide two years of identity protection.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due5 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 182 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 35 days

Sep 1, 2014

Begins

Mar 2, 2015

Discovered

Apr 6, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_13632d6f9ba9ec752015-04-07 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_9db95af69b0c3ee12015-04-02 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_cc65841ecf7926c32015-04-02 · +4dCandidate

Name: AUBURN UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION
norm: auburn university credit union

Name: AUBURN UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION
norm: auburn university credit union
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 2, 2015
Breach occurred: Sep 1, 2014
Undetected for: 182 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 1, 2015
Affected individuals: 6,457state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection

During the incident: Engaged independent forensics experts to identify the full extent of data implicated
Corrected the internal issue the day it was discovered
Engaged Experian to offer complimentary Fraud Resolution and identity protection for two years
Established a confidential assistance line
Changes made: Taken steps to increase data security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(35 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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New Hampshire State AGApr 2 · first

California State AGApr 2 · first

South Carolina State AG+4d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Apr 2 (NH), last Apr 7 (MA) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2015/AuburnUniversity.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 6, 2015
Raw hash: 94be12285b09fa3423ffb29e9221f945ed3e6646ed73c340d9fc2cc15dce1a06

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAUBURN UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION

Victim entityAUBURN UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION

Incidentdiscovered Mar 2, 2015

Stated responseEngaged independent forensics experts to identify the full extent of data implicated

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov