Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

Northwest University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 20, 2018

Filed

Jun 29, 2018

To disclose

9 days

Affected

29state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Northwest University →2 incidents on file

Northwest University notified Montana AG of a June 20, 2018 incident where an unauthorized third party accessed an employee's email account via phishing. Potentially affected data includes names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, bank/credit card numbers, and PHI. The university terminated access, engaged forensic vendors, and provided one year of Experian credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 days

Jun 20, 2018

Discovered

Jun 29, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_15b142d479d097682018-06-29Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_4ffda63bd92b2c792018-06-29Verified
Montana State AGbd_8483e3b3c78486292018-06-29Verified

Name: Northwest University
norm: northwest university

Name: Northwest University
norm: northwest university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jun 20, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2018
Affected individuals: 29state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented technical safeguards to ensure that the attacker's access was terminated
Retained a third-party forensics vendor to evaluate how the attack occurred
Retained Experian to provide credit monitoring services
Redoubled efforts to ensure the confidentiality of account access credentials
Changes made: Retained Experian to provide credit monitoring services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 days(9 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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Washington State AGJun 29 · first

Massachusetts State AGJun 29 · first

Montana State AGJun 29 · first

Montana State AGJun 29 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/BreachNotificationDetails.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2018
Raw hash: 8300128006f486240af74cc83b1da2eee9c86253f3950c8d56835db853522393

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorthwest University

Victim entityNorthwest University

Incidentdiscovered Jun 20, 2018

Stated responseImplemented technical safeguards to ensure that the attacker's access was terminated

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov