Rutgers University — October 2020 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Apr 19, 2021 → May 3, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

Affected · reported

2,165

First → last filing

Apr 19, 2021 → May 3, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_0304665141e64c26 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Oct 6, 2020–Oct 7, 2020, discovered Oct 7, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 194 days later. 2,165 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Financial account, Financial credentials, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 14-day schedule across 4 filings beginning Apr 19, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay

194days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance

194days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span

14days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueMaine✓ ME AG ≤30d · 11dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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