HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Colgate University

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 3, 2019

Filed

May 30, 2019

To disclose

27 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Colgate University →2 incidents on file

Colgate University notified the NH AG of a breach at third-party provider PrismRBS affecting its online bookstore. An unauthorized party installed malicious code to capture payment card info (names, numbers, CVV, billing address, phone) between April 13-26, 2019. One NH resident affected. Notification sent May 30, 2019.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 20 days

discovery → filing · 27 days

Apr 13, 2019

Begins

May 3, 2019

Discovered

May 30, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Part of PrismRBS supply-chain incident (2019) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_0de514da508b14e02019-05-30Verified

Name: Colgate University
norm: colgate university
Domain: colgate.edu

Name: Colgate University
norm: colgate university
Domain: colgate.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 3, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 13, 2019 – Apr 26, 2019
Undetected for: 20 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 30, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Financial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1056 Input CaptureT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via PrismRBS
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: PrismRBS hired an outside expert IT forensics firm to respond to and investigate the incident
The University has also notified its credit card payment processor of the incident
PrismRBS has also informed us that it has enhanced the security of its systems, including implementing additional threat monitoring and detection tools, and enabling two-factor authentication on its internal email system
PrismRBS has engaged an independent IT security firm to perform a comprehensive audit of its systems
PrismRBS is offering one year of identity protection services through IdentityWorks
Changes made: PrismRBS has enhanced the security of its systems, including implementing additional threat monitoring and detection tools
PrismRBS enabled two-factor authentication on its internal email system
PrismRBS engaged an independent IT security firm to perform a comprehensive audit of its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 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 AGMay 30 · first

New Hampshire State AGMay 30 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/colgate-university-20190530.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 30, 2019
Raw hash: 99b78e51c70d9a496cd9199774af13e8e04acfe8ea057bfc43d4ec2588100635

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityColgate University

Victim entityColgate University

Incidentdiscovered May 3, 2019

Stated responsePrismRBS hired an outside expert IT forensics firm to respond to and investigate the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov