HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 16, 2016

Filed

Jul 11, 2016

To disclose

25 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION →2 incidents on file

Career Education Corporation (via Sanford-Brown College) notified Montana residents of a data breach on July 16, 2016. On June 16, 2016, a contractor copied a file containing names, addresses, and Social Security numbers from the secure network. The company engaged Kroll for credit monitoring and adjusted network blocking mechanisms.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 25 days

Jun 16, 2016

Begins

Jun 16, 2016

Discovered

Jul 11, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

7 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_b84d8aeceddfbe832016-07-11Verified

Name: CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION
norm: career education

Name: CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION
norm: career education
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jun 16, 2016
Breach occurred: Jun 16, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 16, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement authorities
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Involving the contractor’s employer and law enforcement authorities
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year
Readjusted the blocking mechanism so that in the future it will block information in this format from being downloaded
Changes made: Readjusted the blocking mechanism so that in the future it will block information in this format from being downloaded
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 days(25 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGJul 11 · first

Montana State AGJul 11 · 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/Career-Education-Corporation.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 11, 2016
Raw hash: a0bc487b9a6b5fbbf1060994efed0db2b1266a35c967886f5c0994308a45fbfe

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION

Victim entityCAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION

Incidentdiscovered Jun 16, 2016

Stated responseInvolving the contractor’s employer and law enforcement authorities

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov