Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

ENDICOTT COLLEGE

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 23, 2019

Filed

Oct 25, 2019

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for ENDICOTT COLLEGE →

Endicott College notified the NH Attorney General of a security incident where an unauthorized person accessed an email account between Sept 21-23, 2019. The account contained the name and SSN of one NH resident. Endicott reset credentials, investigated, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

Sep 21, 2019

Begins

Sep 23, 2019

Discovered

Oct 25, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_adb393bbb68063942019-10-24 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_d316fa17144df1452019-10-24 · +1dCandidate

Name: ENDICOTT COLLEGE
norm: endicott college

Name: ENDICOTT COLLEGE
norm: endicott college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 23, 2019
Breach occurred: Sep 21, 2019 – Sep 23, 2019
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 24, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reset the email credentials
Commenced an investigation
Undertook a review of the emails and attachments within the account
Offered the New Hampshire resident involved a complimentary one-year membership in credit monitoring services through Experian
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and technical security measures to further protect personal information
Enhance our existing security protocols
Re-educating our staff for awareness on these types of incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(32 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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Massachusetts State AGOct 24 · first

Montana State AGOct 24 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/endicott-college-20191025.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 25, 2019
Raw hash: 76a075c01c25ba49edea432d3ef2d5aef7fa9321cd49c97b14674d75db9ac47c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityENDICOTT COLLEGE

Victim entityENDICOTT COLLEGE

Incidentdiscovered Sep 23, 2019

Stated responseReset the email credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov