Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedCredentialsPIILowContained

College of Eastern Idaho (CEI)

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 5, 2018

Filed

Dec 27, 2018

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for College of Eastern Idaho (CEI) →

College of Eastern Idaho notified affected individuals of a phishing incident where unauthorized access to four employee email accounts occurred between July 14 and September 12, 2018. The breach exposed personal information of individuals whose data was stored in those accounts. CEI engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 53 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 113 days

Jul 14, 2018

Begins

Sep 5, 2018

Discovered

Dec 27, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+6 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2 affectedView incident

Name: College of Eastern Idaho (CEI)
norm: college of eastern idaho cei

Name: College of Eastern Idaho (CEI)
norm: college of eastern idaho cei
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 5, 2018
Breach occurred: Jul 14, 2018 – Sep 12, 2018
Undetected for: 53 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 24, 2018
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: CredentialsPII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators
Ensuring the passwords for the affected email accounts were changed
Taking additional actions to strengthen the security of our email systems
Providing additional training to users on how to identify phishing scams
Providing you with information you can use to better protect against identity theft and fraud, as well as access to 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with TransUnion
Changes made: Taking additional actions to strengthen the security of our email systems
Providing additional training to users on how to identify phishing scams
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(113 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/College-of-Eastern-Idaho-CEI.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 27, 2018
Raw hash: 1887fcf7cd87d5b5f8d3cb2f72cd91c21c60d77a6f59bc7ff60dfae5959045f0

Reporting entityCollege of Eastern Idaho (CEI)

Victim entityCollege of Eastern Idaho (CEI)

Incidentdiscovered Sep 5, 2018

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov