Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingTargetedCredentialsPIILowContained

Broward College

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 18, 2017

Filed

Jan 10, 2018

To disclose

21 weeks

Affected

8state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Broward College →

Broward College notified individuals of a phishing incident where employees clicked a malicious link and provided credentials on August 18, 2017. The college reset passwords, engaged forensic investigators, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring. The incident impacted employees, with specific mention of Rhode Island residents.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 15 days

discovery → filing · 21 weeks / 145 days

Aug 3, 2017

Begins

Aug 18, 2017

Discovered

Jan 10, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+11 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_8f114e49e310f7c52018-01-10Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_9c9bddc89ac0daf72018-01-10Verified

Name: Broward College
norm: broward college

Name: Broward College
norm: broward college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Aug 18, 2017
Breach occurred: Aug 3, 2017
Undetected for: 15 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 3, 2018
Affected individuals: 8state-resident count only
Data types: CredentialsPII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacting all potentially affected employees and ensuring that all passwords were changed
Initiated an investigation, with the assistance of a third-party forensic investigator
Ensured that all affected employees changed their passwords
Continue to monitor our systems
Providing access to 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with Experian
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 weeks(145 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 AGJan 10 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 10 · first

Montana State AGJan 10 · 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/Broward-College.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 10, 2018
Raw hash: d001b6bd990c9b66dc33c2e5550d41eea162131c148bc75cc147b306f22a871f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBroward College

Victim entityBroward College

Incidentdiscovered Aug 18, 2017

Stated responseContacting all potentially affected employees and ensuring that all passwords were changed

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov