HackingEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Thomas Edison State University

bd_f0df385cf2308afa · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 26, 2018

Filed

Feb 14, 2018

To disclose

19 days

Affected · nationwide

5572 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Thomas Edison State University →

Thomas Edison State University notified the NH AG of a breach discovered Jan 26, 2018, where an unauthorized user accessed a single employee email account. Personal info (names, SSNs) of 557 individuals was acquired. The university removed the account, engaged experts, filed a police report, and offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 days

Jan 26, 2018

Discovered

Feb 14, 2018

Filed

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6 wks faster

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

Montana State AGbd_c6a2720d40cedb862018-02-13 · +1dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_966d21c3d82be0302018-02-16 · +2dVerified

Name: FOX ROTHSCHILD LLP
norm: fox rothschild
Domain: foxrothschild.com

Name: Thomas Edison State University
norm: thomas edison state university
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 26, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 14, 2018
Affected individuals: 557state + nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney GeneralFiled a police report with the New Jersey State Police
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Removed the impacted email account and computer from its network
Contacted experts in the data security and the data breach response fields for guidance
Filed a police report in this matter with the New Jersey State Police
Offered to the affected individuals, at no cost to them, online credit monitoring and identity restoration services for two years provided by Experian
Changes made: Completing a total audit and overhaul of its security infrastructure by information security and technology experts
Investigating adding further restrictions on accessing Thomas Edison computers
Adding additional layers of protection to the Thomas Edison network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 days(19 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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Montana State AGFeb 13 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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/thomas-edison-20180214.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 14, 2018
Raw hash: 5432360e95a80a6fa080b0c152514acf3587c21546161efa76f6ab5d6f6f81c1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFOX ROTHSCHILD LLP

Victim entityThomas Edison State University

Incidentdiscovered Jan 26, 2018

Stated responseRemoved the impacted email account and computer from its network

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov