HackingEducationEducationTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Valley Educational Associates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 1, 2026

Filed

May 27, 2026

To disclose

≤1 day

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Valley Educational Associates →

Valley Educational Associates, Inc. notified Massachusetts residents that on May 1, 2026, unauthorized access to personal data was discovered. Potentially accessed data includes names and government identifiers. No evidence of misuse was found. The company recommended credit monitoring and fraud alerts.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA AG ≤30d≤1 day 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 · 26 days

May 1, 2026

Discovered

May 27, 2026

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

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

Name: Valley Educational Associates
norm: valley educational associates
Domain: valleyeducational.org

Name: Valley Educational Associates
norm: valley educational associates
Domain: valleyeducational.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 1, 2026
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Recommended placing a Fraud Alert and Security Freeze on credit files
Recommended obtaining a free credit report
Changes made: Continually evaluate and modify practices and internal controls to enhance security and privacy
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: ≤1 day(0 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MA AG ≤30d
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.

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://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-854-valley-educational-associates-inc/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 27, 2026
Raw hash: 567b3a20685abd6e2ea6c2b613266a68a41cdfd29e51edbb01a69d30a2cf9705

Reporting entityValley Educational Associates

Victim entityValley Educational Associates

Incidentdiscovered May 1, 2026

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceMA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov