{"id":79,"date":"2023-02-18T02:44:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentprotect.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:55:52","slug":"2022-2023-paul-smiths-college-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentprotect.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/2022-2023-paul-smiths-college-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"2022-2023 Paul Smith&#8217;s College Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One-sentence summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Potentially AvosLocker breached Paul Smith&#8217;s College network, stealing data and SSNs for over 10,000+ persons, and remained undetected for almost six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who was involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Threat actor (potentially AvosLocker), Paul Smith&#8217;s College, and 10,615 persons and 71 Maine residents (HackNotice, 2022; Office of the Maine Attorney General, 2023, para. 2). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What was the timeline?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breach duration: 07\/01\/2022 &#8211; 08\/31\/2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discovery: 01\/26\/2023 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reported: 02\/17\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Office of the Maine Attorney General, 2023, para. 3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What occurred?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Potentially AvosLocker breached Paul Smith&#8217;s College network for several months in 2022, stealing data and SSNs (social security numbers) for over 10,000+ persons (Office of the Maine Attorney General, 2023, para. 3). The information was posted online via Tor\/Onion in September (HackNotice, 2022). Paul Smith&#8217;s College did not know of the breach until January 26, 2023, and did not notify the public and victims until February 17, 2023 (Office of the Maine Attorney General, 2023, para. 3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Estimated costs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside incident response costs, data breach notification costs, and identity theft reporting costs (12-Months \/ Experian &#8211; IdentityWorks Credit 3B) (Paul Smith\u2019s College, 2023, p. 1; Office of the Maine Attorney General, 2023, para. 4). Legal costs (law firm seen representing the college) (Office of the Maine Attorney General, 2023, para. 2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Involved laws: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Potentially FERPA. Maine state law: 10 M.R.S.A. \u00a7 1346. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Root cause: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TBA or N\/A (see disclaimer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lessons learned: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TBA or N\/A (see disclaimer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HackNotice. (2022, September 10). <em>HackNotice: Paul Smiths College Hack<\/em>. hacknotice.com. Retrieved February 17, 2023, from https:\/\/app.hacknotice.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Office of the Maine Attorney General. (2023, February 17). <em>Office of the Maine AG: Consumer Protection: Privacy, Identity Theft and Data Security Breaches<\/em>. maine.gov. Retrieved February 17, 2023, from https:\/\/apps.web.maine.gov\/online\/aeviewer\/ME\/40\/eca32f8f-7a9c-42cd-bcd8-cd5a83369f71.shtml<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Smith\u2019s College. (2023). PSC &#8212; Redacted 12-Month Notification Letter (11002527x7AB84).pdf. In <em>maine.gov<\/em>. Office of the Maine Attorney General. Retrieved February 17, 2023, from <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.web.maine.gov\/online\/aeviewer\/ME\/40\/eca32f8f-7a9c-42cd-bcd8-cd5a83369f71\/169ea682-9112-4f1d-b3b4-7f021ac1d79a\/document.html\">https:\/\/apps.web.maine.gov\/online\/aeviewer\/ME\/40\/eca32f8f-7a9c-42cd-bcd8-cd5a83369f71\/169ea682-9112-4f1d-b3b4-7f021ac1d79a\/document.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-sentence summary: Potentially AvosLocker breached Paul Smith&#8217;s College network, stealing data and SSNs for over 10,000+ persons, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,3,12,28,13,76,49,63,75,61,11,10,77,78,74,26,14,51,66,64,25,69,71,72,70,8,27,48,73,47,67,62,65,15,79,80],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-breach-report","tag-been-pwned","tag-breach-report","tag-breaches","tag-breachreport","tag-ciso","tag-cloud","tag-college","tag-computer-security","tag-cyber-security","tag-cybercrime","tag-cybersecurity","tag-dallas","tag-dark-web","tag-darkweb","tag-data-breach","tag-databreach","tag-executive","tag-ferpa","tag-hack","tag-hacker","tag-hacking","tag-have-been-pwned","tag-have-i-pwned","tag-i-been-pwned","tag-i-have-been-pwned","tag-kent-protect","tag-kentprotect","tag-maine","tag-password","tag-paul-smiths-college","tag-pwned","tag-security","tag-security-hacker","tag-summary","tag-the-darkweb","tag-tor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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