HackingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICMediumContained
Amherst College
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Full breach record for Amherst College →Amherst College notified Massachusetts residents of a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to student and employee records. The breach compromised personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers and dates of birth. The College is offering 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring through Experian IdentityWorks and advising affected individuals to place fraud alerts or security freezes on their credit files.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-763-amherst-college/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- May 1, 2026
- Raw hash
- e7a6991461b540e9acfa2237f240928592377a7d3c2086ddd4a273bd63e98cf0
Reporting entity
- Name
- Amherst Collegenorm: amherst college
Victim entity
- Name
- Amherst Collegenorm: amherst college
Incident
- Discovered
- —
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.