AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 23, 2019

Filed

Jan 23, 2019

To disclose

≤1 day

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

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American Councils for International Education notified students that Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) improperly shared student PII (names, DOB, passport data) with other students in the same study-abroad program between 2015 and Jan 2019. The incident was discovered in Jan 2019. The involved KazNU employee was terminated. American Councils updated privacy practices.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1483 days

discovery → filing · ≤1 day / 0 days

Jan 1, 2015

Begins

Jan 23, 2019

Discovered

Jan 23, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: American Councils for International Education
norm: american councils for international education

Name: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
norm: al farabi kazakh national university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 23, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2015 – Jan 23, 2019
Undetected for: 1,483 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 23, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1567 Deception: Spearphishing LinkT1005 Data from Local System
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Commenced an internal investigation
Took measures to prevent further dissemination of this data
Increase its students’ data security by working with KazNU to update its privacy and communication practices
The KazNU employee involved in the communications leading to the unauthorized sharing of personal data has been terminated
Changes made: Update its privacy and communication practices
Implementation of additional steps to ensure the security of our students’ personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: ≤1 day(0 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/al-farabi-kazakh-20190123.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 23, 2019
Raw hash: d943c453d7658eff1136d0f737874e190947f8e7e8d55e30e201b312fa531945

Reporting entityAmerican Councils for International Education

Victim entityAl-Farabi Kazakh National University

Incidentdiscovered Jan 23, 2019

Stated responseCommenced an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov