Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC.

bd_d2e1c39f4cb2aee9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 15, 2018

Filed

Feb 19, 2019

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. →3 incidents on file

Wentworth Institute of Technology notified affected individuals of a phishing attack in early 2019. Cybercriminals tricked employees into providing passwords, gaining unauthorized access to three email accounts between September 8 and October 15, 2018. The incident potentially exposed names and other personal information of employees, student employees, and partners. Wentworth secured accounts, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 37 days

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 127 days

Sep 8, 2018

Begins

Oct 15, 2018

Discovered

Feb 19, 2019

Filed

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_14b3c43189ef43742019-02-19Verified

Name: WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC.
norm: wentworth institute of

Name: WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC.
norm: wentworth institute of
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Oct 15, 2018
Breach occurred: Sep 8, 2018 – Oct 15, 2018
Undetected for: 37 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 19, 2019
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured email accounts immediately upon learning of the phishing incident
Changed account settings to enhance security
Engaged a leading cyber security firm to assist with the investigation
Undertook a comprehensive review of the emails and attachments in the employees’ email accounts
Arranged for you to receive a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s® IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Changes made: Providing additional training to our employees regarding phishing emails and other cybersecurity issues
Enhancing existing security measures related to our email system
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(127 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 19 · first

Montana State AGFeb 19 · first · this page

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/CON-Pages-from-WIT-MT-AG-Notice_2.19.19.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 19, 2019
Raw hash: 9087f0a4e32f99ecde40e967b074846e5875f133c574f8a823f6b8803ec25145

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Victim entityWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 15, 2018

Stated responseSecured email accounts immediately upon learning of the phishing incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov