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HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedData PublishedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

bd_c27af95d64141719 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2016

Filed

Nov 8, 2017

To disclose

13 months

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE7 incidents on file

Baylor College of Medicine notified Montana residents of a data breach where applicant personal information (names, SSNs) was exposed via unauthorized access to a database. The incident was discovered in October 2016, and exposure was confirmed in October 2017. The college engaged Kroll to provide one year of identity monitoring services to affected individuals.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 months / 403 days

Oct 1, 2016

Begins

Oct 1, 2016

Discovered

Nov 8, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+47 wks slower

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

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGNov 30 · first
New Hampshire State AGNov 30 · first
Montana State AG+343d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 30 (MT), last Nov 8 (MT) — a 343-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.