Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 24, 2017

Filed

Mar 6, 2017

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected · nationwide

2573 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION, INC. →

University of Idaho notified 257 individuals that an employee email account was compromised via phishing on Jan 24, 2017. Personal info (name, address, SSN) was accessed. The university engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, and provided one year of credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 41 days

Jan 24, 2017

Discovered

Mar 6, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_c7355d21af16330e2017-03-06Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_db94f6a91d06f9902017-03-06Verified

Name: UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION, INC.
norm: university of idaho

Name: UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION, INC.
norm: university of idaho
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 24, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 6, 2017
Affected individuals: 257state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed employee passwords to prevent further unauthorized access
Expanded the investigation
Retained a leading computer security firm to assist
Provided one year of CSID Protector services including credit monitoring and identity theft restoration coverage
Changes made: Evaluating business practices
Re-educating employees regarding phishing emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(41 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 6 · first

New Hampshire State AGMar 6 · first

Montana State AGMar 6 · 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/University-of-Idaho.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 6, 2017
Raw hash: 0843f73a677254b6f7d798bff0784070b3cb2d15a4f6f87f68cc4f7124a1f9ef

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION, INC.

Victim entityUNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 24, 2017

Stated responseChanged employee passwords to prevent further unauthorized access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov