MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData ExfiltratedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Northwest Arkansas Community College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 1, 2024

Filed

Feb 27, 2025

To disclose

34 weeks

Affected

27state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Northwest Arkansas Community College →2 incidents on file

Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC) experienced a ransomware attack in July 2024. The incident resulted in the potential exfiltration of personal information, including names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, government IDs, financial account information, and dates of birth. NWACC notified law enforcement, engaged cybersecurity specialists, and implemented remediation measures including global password resets and endpoint detection. 27 Maryland residents were notified and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d34 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 34 weeks / 241 days

Jul 1, 2024

Discovered

Feb 27, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+26 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_d2191078372fbace2025-02-27Verified

Name: Northwest Arkansas Community College
norm: northwest arkansas community college

Name: Northwest Arkansas Community College
norm: northwest arkansas community college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 1, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 27, 2025
Affected individuals: 27state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Maryland Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Implemented its incident response protocols
Engaged independent cybersecurity specialists
Began an investigation to determine the scope and extent of the incident
Notified law enforcement
Worked with a vendor to review the impacted data
Performed a global password reset
Deployed endpoint detection monitoring software on all systems
Implementing additional security controls
Offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through IDX at no cost
Changes made: Performing a global password reset
Deploying endpoint detection monitoring software on all systems
Implementing additional security controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 34 weeks(241 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >90d
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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Indiana State AGFeb 27 · first

Maryland State AGFeb 27 · 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://oag.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376428.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 27, 2025
Raw hash: 3bb47959123182a42894064700a4015961e3f1b0987eae72ec90fc2d3dfdc6ee

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorthwest Arkansas Community College

Victim entityNorthwest Arkansas Community College

Incidentdiscovered Jul 1, 2024

Stated responseImplemented its incident response protocols

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov