HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsPrivilege AbuseDelayed DiscoveryMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentEducationHighContained

Maricopa County Community Colleges District

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Severity

High

Discovered

Apr 29, 2013

Filed

Dec 13, 2013

To disclose

33 weeks

Affected

3,678state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Maricopa County Community Colleges District →2 incidents on file

Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) notified Hawaii OCP of a security incident where unauthorized access to IT systems exposed student, employee, and vendor data including SSNs, DOBs, and financial info. Access was gained via stolen credentials by ITS employees. MCCCD engaged Kroll for forensics, notified the FBI, and provided 1 year of credit monitoring to 3,678 Hawaii residents. Notifications mailed November 27, 2013.

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Hawaii clock✓ HI CRA notice due33 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 33 weeks / 228 days

Apr 29, 2013

Discovered

Dec 13, 2013

Filed

vs. sector median

+24 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_1cfe7f6b92652b832013-12-06 · +7dVerified
California State AGbd_e954e48dee303abb2013-12-02 · +11dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_0711c3ce7eef1ead2013-11-27 · +16dVerified

Name: Maricopa County Community Colleges District
norm: maricopa county community colleges district
Domain: maricopa.edu

Name: Maricopa County Community Colleges District
norm: maricopa county community colleges district
Domain: maricopa.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 29, 2013
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 27, 2013
Affected individuals: 3,678state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentEducation
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Provided extensive briefing to the Arizona Auditor General's OfficeProvided extensive briefing to the Higher Learning CommissionNotification provided to the Consumer Reporting Agencies
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged Kroll Advisory Services to assist with the investigation
Notified the FBI
Retained Wilson Elser as outside counsel
Took affected servers offline
Initiated internal review of its entire system
Mailing of notification letters commenced
Providing individuals whose information may have been accessed without authorization with one year of continuous credit monitoring and enhanced identity theft consultation and restoration services
Changes made: Installed a Palo Alto Web Application Firewall (WAF) device
Installed new hardware and software to more securely host the current web environment
Implemented the One Maricopa Network Enhancement (OMNE) initiative
Installed and configured an Oracle Database Firewall
Implemented shunning technology and risk tools to block traffic to and from 'at risk' IP addresses
Initiated employment action against ITS employees
Reconfiguring its IT structure to ensure increased accountability
Created a Chief Information Security Officer position
Revising its security policies
Redesigning its Web environment to implement additional security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 33 weeks(228 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HI CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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New Hampshire State AGNov 27 · first

California State AG+5d

Massachusetts State AG+9d

Hawaii State AG+16d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 27 (NH), last Dec 13 (HI) — a 16-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://web.archive.org/web/20211024101019id_/https://cca.hawaii.gov/ocp/files/2015/12/OCP-2013-0775.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 13, 2013
Raw hash: 96ffac3ab9e8776f6608d062769c3d8c93f4331005d8af18b26b87b095e891be

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMaricopa County Community Colleges District

Victim entityMaricopa County Community Colleges District

Incidentdiscovered Apr 29, 2013

Stated responseEngaged Kroll Advisory Services to assist with the investigation

ComplianceHI CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceweb.archive.org