Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

Kalamazoo College

bd_bf0e7408a4b3674a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 29, 2016

Filed

May 11, 2016

To disclose

12 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Kalamazoo College →

Kalamazoo College notified employees of a spear-phishing incident on April 29, 2016. An employee clicked a link and submitted W-2 forms containing PII, SSNs, and earnings. The College notified the FBI, IRS, and state authorities, and provided 24 months of identity protection services to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 12 days

Apr 28, 2016

Begins

Apr 29, 2016

Discovered

May 11, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_8403ab3534ac43882016-05-11Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_5042db5184f644732016-05-16 · +5dVerified

Name: Kalamazoo College
norm: kalamazoo college

Name: Kalamazoo College
norm: kalamazoo college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 29, 2016
Breach occurred: Apr 28, 2016 – Apr 28, 2016
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 11, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the IRSNotified the FBINotified the Michigan State PoliceInformed the state taxing authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the IRS, FBI, and the Michigan State Police of the incident
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 24 months at no cost to you
Informed the state taxing authorities of the incident
Changes made: Supplement existing employee training with additional training on protecting personal information
Aggressively analyzing where policy and process changes are needed, including analysis of additional automated technology solutions
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 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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New Hampshire State AGMay 11 · first

Montana State AGMay 11 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing May 11 (NH), last May 16 (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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Kalamazoo-College.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 11, 2016
Raw hash: fe8e2431d076d8dca039e466d3c7baae3ee79b22dbd49f00db80c2ad8283def6

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKalamazoo College

Victim entityKalamazoo College

Incidentdiscovered Apr 29, 2016

Stated responseNotified the IRS, FBI, and the Michigan State Police of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov