AccidentalEducationEducationMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumResolved

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 17, 2012

Filed

Jun 18, 2012

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

8state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation →2 incidents on file

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation notified NH AG of a data breach where applicant PII (names, SSNs, addresses) was publicly accessible due to an IT oversight during a website update in April 2012. Discovered May 17, 2012. 8 NH residents affected. No third-party intrusion. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 32 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

Apr 15, 2012

Begins

May 17, 2012

Discovered

Jun 18, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed8 affectedView incident

Name: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
norm: woodrow wilson national fellowship
Domain: woodrow.org

Name: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
norm: woodrow wilson national fellowship
Domain: woodrow.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 17, 2012
Breach occurred: Apr 15, 2012 – Apr 30, 2012
Undetected for: 32 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 18, 2012
Affected individuals: 8state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection
Regulator citations: New Hampshire Attorney General is hereby notifiedNew Jersey local authorities and, where required, state attorneys general have been notified

During the incident: Replaced all of the affected information behind its firewall
Removed all known traces of the information from the internet
Notified police agencies and attorneys general
Performed a follow-up security assessment
Providing free credit monitoring services through Experian
Changes made: Working to reduce the chances of a similar situation in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(32 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/woodrow-wilson-fellowship-20120618.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 18, 2012
Raw hash: 277cb36f5cd7360c514aa0d9e412c07de56e40de89ff41d9ebc2a32815a601a1

Reporting entityWoodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Victim entityWoodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Incidentdiscovered May 17, 2012

Stated responseReplaced all of the affected information behind its firewall

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov