HackingEducationProfessional ServicesEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentPHIMediumContained

Central Oregon Community College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 21, 2024

Filed

Feb 28, 2025

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Central Oregon Community College →

Central Oregon Community College notified Vermont residents of a data breach at its third-party administrator, Carruth Compliance Consulting. Unauthorized access occurred on December 21, 2024, potentially exposing names, SSNs, financial account info, and tax/medical billing data for employees. Carruth engaged forensic specialists and notified the FBI. Credit monitoring is offered.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday10 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 69 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Dec 21, 2024

Discovered

Feb 28, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Carruth Compliance Consulting supply-chain incident (2025) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_45aa5a88726c0f7d2025-02-28Verified
Nebraska State AGbd_e326558352a93d382025-02-28Verified
Oregon State AGbd_f805b5cac0f0d76b2025-02-28Verified
Maine State AGbd_3b4e400f4251f40e2025-03-05 · +5dVerified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_c1b52a56aa1296db2025-03-05 · +5dVerified

Name: Central Oregon Community College
norm: central oregon community college
Domain: cocc.edu

Name: Central Oregon Community College
norm: central oregon community college
Domain: cocc.edu
Industry: EducationllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 21, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentPHI
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting

During the incident: Began working with third-party specialists to investigate the activity
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(69 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Indiana State AGFeb 28 · first

Nebraska State AGFeb 28 · first

Oregon State AGFeb 28 · first

Vermont State AGFeb 28 · first · this page

Maine State AG+5d

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Feb 28 (IN), last Mar 5 (MA) — a 5-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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-02-28-central-oregon-community-college-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2025
Raw hash: 4463721bcf278429cc1abbe87bae94545305726336d4a6c7479f7671107c3f6c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCentral Oregon Community College

Victim entityCentral Oregon Community College

Incidentdiscovered Dec 21, 2024

Stated responseBegan working with third-party specialists to investigate the activity

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov