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AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Global University

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Severity

High

Discovered

Feb 1, 2018

Filed

May 8, 2018

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

1,017state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Global University

Global University disclosed a data breach involving a misconfigured database accessible to the Internet from Dec 31, 2017 to Jan 31, 2018. The incident exposed names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth of current and former students. The university discovered the potential exposure on Feb 1, 2018, engaged forensic investigators, and began notifying affected individuals on May 8, 2018, offering 12 months of identity protection.

Incident timeline

undetected · 32 days
discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 96 days

Dec 31, 2017

Begins

Feb 1, 2018

Discovered

May 8, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filingsup to 22d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGMay 8 · first
Washington State AGMay 8 · first
Oregon State AGMay 8 · first
Montana State AGMay 8 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing May 8 (CA), last May 30 (HI) — a 22-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.