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AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Broome Community College

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jan 21, 2009

Filed

Mar 12, 2009

To disclose

29 days

Affected

13,627

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Broome Community College

Broome Community College inadvertently included Social Security numbers on mailing address labels of its alumni magazine, BROOME, affecting 13,627 individuals (66 New Hampshire residents). The breach was discovered on February 11, 2009. The college engaged Kroll to provide free identity theft restoration and credit monitoring services for one year. This was an inadvertent disclosure error, not a hacking incident.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 50 days

Jan 21, 2009

Begins

Jan 21, 2009

Discovered

Mar 12, 2009

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed13,627 affectedView incident

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.