HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

LEE UNIVERSITY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2024

Filed

Mar 24, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

15 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for LEE UNIVERSITY →

Lee University notified Nebraska residents of a March 2024 security incident involving a third-party software vulnerability. The breach resulted in the potential exfiltration of personal information, including names and government identifiers. The university engaged cybersecurity experts, contained the incident, and offered identity theft protection services to affected individuals. Notices were sent in March 2025.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d

Incident timeline

Mar 1, 2024

Begins

Mar 1, 2024

Discovered

Mar 24, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 15 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by medusa about this victim predates this filing by 340 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_300a9184d4bcd0812025-03-25 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_7e6cb9d5990cf5492025-03-25 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_8cdee20d984ad4d92025-03-25 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_04edd7df916f70a02025-03-26 · +2dVerified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 395d gap

Maine State AGbd_37ece777e49ea0462025-03-26 · +2dVerified
Washington State AGbd_96bc7c394d2c81b32025-03-26 · +2dVerified
Washington State AGbd_b3e570950a87e26f2025-03-26 · +2dVerified
California State AGbd_d5f5a1eec1591b7c2025-03-26 · +2dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_999367d5f3b9dbb72025-03-31 · +7dVerified
Maryland State AGbd_81b8b7e84bde761c2026-04-23 · +395dVerified

Showing first 10 of 14 linked disclosures.

Name: LEE UNIVERSITY
norm: lee university

Name: LEE UNIVERSITY
norm: lee university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 24, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Launched an investigation with the support of industry-leading cybersecurity experts
Offering identity theft protection services through IDX
Reviewing existing policies and procedures and implementing enhanced security measures
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures and implementing enhanced security measures to reduce the likelihood of a similar incident occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >180d
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 · 11 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗

Nebraska State AGMar 24 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

Montana State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+2d

Maine State AG+2d

Washington State AG+2d

California State AG+2d

South Carolina State AG+7d

Maryland State AG+395d

Pattern: first filing Mar 24 (NE), last Apr 23 (MD) — a 395-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 14 — the full spread may be wider.

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://nebraska.gov/ago/data-breach/documents/4dc5cd4b-d9c5-4084-a9d7-5b6032084070.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 24, 2025
Raw hash: 5306afe2ddaf78ca0a014423705fb7cdda7583a61d86fe835c29e94bdd381e52

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLEE UNIVERSITY

Victim entityLEE UNIVERSITY

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2024

Stated responseLaunched an investigation with the support of industry-leading cybersecurity experts

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancenebraska.gov