HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedDownstream VictimsN-DayIdentity (basic)AuthenticationEducationLowResolved

Santa Barbara Unified School District

bd_0885f01d410c5843 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

May 20, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

81%

Full breach record for Santa Barbara Unified School District →

Santa Barbara Unified School District notified families on May 20, 2020 of unauthorized access to the Aeries Student Information System, a third-party vendor used by hundreds of California districts. The breach, discovered in late November 2019, may have exposed student IDs, parent and student emails, physical addresses, and hashed passwords. Aeries patched the vulnerability in December 2019 and perpetrators were taken into custody.

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Incident timeline

Nov 1, 2019

Begins

May 20, 2020

Filed

Part of Aeries supply-chain incident (2020) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Santa Barbara Unified School District
norm: santa barbara unified school district

Name: Santa Barbara Unified School District
norm: santa barbara unified school district
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2019 – Dec 1, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 20, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)AuthenticationEducation
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Aeries Software
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Requiring that all parents/guardians with Aeries accounts reset their Aeries passwords
Aeries fixed the vulnerability that permitted the unauthorized access in December 2019
Requested Aeries' assistance in determining whether we were impacted
SBUnified conducted an internal review of Aeries' findings in preparation to release this notification
Changes made: Aeries released a series of security patches in December 2019 to address the potential vulnerabilities
Protections in place to ensure that people outside of the District cannot email students directly
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-190249
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 20, 2020
Raw hash: 9dc247fd68cbf28380dd4b372044f8a5eeb2ff7a13a6ad1399b7039915be8104

Reporting entitySanta Barbara Unified School District

Victim entitySanta Barbara Unified School District

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseRequiring that all parents/guardians with Aeries accounts reset their Aeries passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov