HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

City College of San Francisco

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 18, 2019

Filed

Jun 25, 2019

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for City College of San Francisco →3 incidents on file

City College of San Francisco reported that an unauthorized individual accessed an employee's email account containing personal information of students and employees. The breach occurred on February 11, 2019, and was discovered on April 18, 2019. Affected data includes names, addresses, dates of birth, and potentially Social Security numbers. The college changed passwords, disabled self-service direct deposit changes, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 66 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 68 days

Feb 11, 2019

Begins

Apr 18, 2019

Discovered

Jun 25, 2019

Filed

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

Name: City College of San Francisco
norm: city college of san francisco
Domain: ccsf.community.highbond.com

Name: City College of San Francisco
norm: city college of san francisco
Domain: ccsf.community.highbond.com
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 18, 2019
Breach occurred: Feb 11, 2019
Undetected for: 66 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took immediate steps to secure the information
Changed our employees’ account passwords
Disabled self-service changes to the direct deposit system
Conducted a thorough investigation by a forensic security firm
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Changes made: Enhance our existing security protocols
Re-educating our employees for awareness on these types of incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(68 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-148422
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 25, 2019
Raw hash: 4025be64561c3ac1dd95c0bd93f815aea939e04e9af0ef3f9b0916f52babf18b

Reporting entityCity College of San Francisco

Victim entityCity College of San Francisco

Incidentdiscovered Apr 18, 2019

Stated responseTook immediate steps to secure the information

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov