AccidentalMisconfigurationDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Stanford University
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Full breach record for Stanford University →Stanford University notified California AG that incorrect file permissions on a Graduate School of Business shared server exposed employee PII (SSN, DOB, salary) from Sept 2016 to March 2017. The breach was discovered by IT on Feb 23, 2017, but notification was delayed. Stanford secured the folders, engaged forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring services to affected employees.
California clockDiscovered Feb 23, 2017 → Notified Dec 1, 2017281d ✗ CA 60-day late40 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-118732
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 1, 2017
- Raw hash
- 985cb1841496391d5a3024c582a6f2fad99c1b728c56f983fbe038fd1860dc44
Reporting entity
- Name
- Stanford Universitynorm: stanford university
- Domain
- stanford.edu
- Industry
- Education
Victim entity
- Name
- Stanford Universitynorm: stanford university
- Domain
- stanford.edu
- Industry
- Education
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 23, 2017
- Materiality determined
- Dec 1, 2017
- Notification sent
- Dec 1, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 40 weeks(281 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 281d
- 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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Feb 23, 2017→ Notified: Dec 1, 2017281d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.