HackingEducationEducationTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Michigan State University

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Severity

High

Discovered

Nov 13, 2016

Filed

Nov 28, 2016

To disclose

15 days

Affected

1,780state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Michigan State University →4 incidents on file

Michigan State University notified affected individuals on November 22, 2016, of a cyberattack on November 13, 2016, that compromised personal information of current and former employees and students. Data included names, SSNs, and student IDs. The database was taken offline, and 24 months of identity protection were provided.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due15 days discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 days

Nov 13, 2016

Begins

Nov 13, 2016

Discovered

Nov 28, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

California State AGbd_8a27d24911b87d9e2016-11-29 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_4f9871974588b2382016-11-30 · +2dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_d21d343df83507152016-11-22 · +6dVerified
Montana State AGbd_238b0815544e28c62016-11-21 · +7dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 11d gap

Washington State AGbd_6a26001a1e6948922016-11-18 · +10dCandidate
Oregon State AGbd_acba0a16473f2e042016-12-09 · +11dVerified

Name: Michigan State University
norm: michigan state university
Domain: msu.edu

Name: Michigan State University
norm: michigan state university
Domain: msu.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Nov 13, 2016
Breach occurred: Nov 13, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 22, 2016
Affected individuals: 1,780state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: MSU Police Department is working diligently with federal law enforcement partners to investigate the incident
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: The affected database was immediately taken offline
MSU Police Department is working diligently with federal law enforcement partners to investigate the incident
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 24 months at no cost
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 days(15 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Washington State AGNov 18 · first

Montana State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+4d

South Carolina State AG+10d · this page

California State AG+11d

Massachusetts State AG+12d

Oregon State AG+21d

Pattern: first filing Nov 18 (WA), last Dec 9 (OR) — a 21-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.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2016/MichiganStateUniversity.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 28, 2016
Raw hash: d3830346356e12f5200ee714fcab6a401bd8c4783a3fd8eac2d8adae7b3c602c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMichigan State University

Victim entityMichigan State University

Incidentdiscovered Nov 13, 2016

Stated responseThe affected database was immediately taken offline

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov