HackingEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

College Board

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 4, 2012

Filed

Jan 13, 2012

To disclose

9 days

Affected · nationwide

4301 in this filing

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for College Board →3 incidents on file

The College Board notified NH AG that a spreadsheet containing PII (names, DOB, passport numbers) of 430 individuals in the 2011 Chinese Bridge Delegation was improperly secured on an internal server in China. Discovered Jan 4, 2012. Data removed Jan 5, 2012. One NH resident affected. No SSN or financial data involved.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 days

Jan 4, 2012

Discovered

Jan 13, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed430 affectedView incident

Name: College Board
norm: college board

Name: College Board
norm: college board
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 4, 2012
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 13, 2012
Affected individuals: 430state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Directed Chinese officials to have the Tai’an Education Bureau remove the information from their website
Verified that the spreadsheet was removed from the Tai’an Education Bureau’s website on January 5, 2012
Instructed any other recipients of the spreadsheet to destroy any electronic or paper copies immediately
Changes made: Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/college-board-20120113.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 13, 2012
Raw hash: c4a5e53355e5b0c752572e22bde92814f6bede7de02752768a498fe6c9d2d5da

Reporting entityCollege Board

Victim entityCollege Board

Incidentdiscovered Jan 4, 2012

Stated responseDirected Chinese officials to have the Tai’an Education Bureau remove the information from their website

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov