AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

Santa Monica Community College District

bd_f5f1ea7fd494f147 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 14, 2026

Filed

Jun 25, 2026

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Santa Monica Community College District →

Santa Monica Community College District (SMC) notified Massachusetts residents of a data incident occurring between April 13, 2026, and May 21, 2026. W-2 forms containing names and Social Security Numbers were mistakenly emailed to two former student workers. SMC confirmed the emails were deleted, found no evidence of misuse, and provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services to affected individuals.

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Massachusetts clock⏱ MA AG >30d6 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 31 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Apr 13, 2026

Begins

May 14, 2026

Discovered

Jun 25, 2026

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_2ab1613b5ed91ea22026-06-25Candidate

Name: Santa Monica Community College District
norm: santa monica community college district

Name: Santa Monica Community College District
norm: santa monica community college district
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 14, 2026
Breach occurred: Apr 13, 2026 – May 21, 2026
Undetected for: 31 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Jun 25, 2026
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Conducted a thorough investigation
Reviewed our policies and procedures related to data protection
Implemented additional safeguards
Arranged for you to enroll, at no cost to you, in credit monitoring and identity protections services
Changes made: Reviewed our policies and procedures related to data protection
Implemented additional safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGJun 25 · first

Massachusetts State AGJun 25 · 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://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-1033-santa-monica-community-college/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 25, 2026
Raw hash: 91e28dd1f0a3023764349bc7585c37502a9892679de32e7e787a311a46c0e332

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySanta Monica Community College District

Victim entitySanta Monica Community College District

Incidentdiscovered May 14, 2026

Stated responseConducted a thorough investigation

ComplianceMA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov