AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalContained

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

May 9, 2012

To disclose

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Affected

350,000

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for University of North Carolina at Charlotte →

University of North Carolina at Charlotte reported a data exposure in New Hampshire caused by incorrect access settings on general and engineering servers. The incident exposed names, addresses, SSNs, and financial account numbers for approximately 350,000 individuals. The exposure was remedied, and the University engaged forensic experts and notified law enforcement and consumer reporting agencies.

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May 9, 2012

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ed943aff08d12cb42012-05-10 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_32ae3feff3fdbff32012-05-11 · +2dCandidate

Name: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
norm: university of north carolina at charlotte

Name: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
norm: university of north carolina at charlotte
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 350,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Regulator citations: Involved state and federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies

During the incident: Involved state and federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies
Hired outside forensic and other experts to protect the data on its networked systems
Continues to monitor this situation carefully
Increased its internal review procedures to watch for any unusual activity
Dramatically increased its information protection capacity
Publishing notice
Providing e-mail notice to certain affected people
Notifying national consumer reporting agencies as well as relevant state and federal agencies
Obtained data recovery and counseling service for those people who will need it
Changes made: Remedied the exposure
Dramatically increased its information protection capacity
Currently reviewing all aspects of its data security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGMay 9 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

California State AG+2d

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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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/university-north-carolina-20120509.pdf
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Filed at: May 9, 2012
Raw hash: 21503fff60420e01149310bbd8e56107369130134e2cd9193eb476d14e5914ae

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte

Victim entityUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseInvolved state and federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov