MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareExtortion DemandRansom DemandedRansom PaidData ExfiltratedData EncryptedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Scholarship America, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Oct 15, 2020

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Scholarship America, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Scholarship America filed a supplemental notice with the NH AG regarding a ransomware attack on its vendor, Blackbaud. The attack occurred Feb-May 2020. Initially, SSNs were believed encrypted, but Blackbaud later confirmed they were unencrypted. One NH resident's PII (name, address, SSN) was affected. Blackbaud paid ransom and confirmed data destruction. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 166 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 91 days

Feb 1, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Oct 15, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

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

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_cf45eedf58a6d9552020-10-15Verified

Name: Scholarship America, Inc.
norm: scholarship america

Name: Scholarship America, Inc.
norm: scholarship america
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2020 – May 31, 2020
Undetected for: 166 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 9, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1496 Resource Hijacking
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General's Consumer Protection Bureau

During the incident: Paid a ransom to the cybercriminal
Received credible confirmation that the stolen files had been destroyed
Arranged for identity protection and credit monitoring services through Experian for one year
Paying a third party service to periodically review the dark web
Changes made: Enhancing safeguards to mitigate the risk of future attacks
Paying a third party service to periodically review the dark web to confirm whether any of Scholarship America’s information is for sale
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(91 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 AGOct 15 · first

New Hampshire State AGOct 15 · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/scholarship-america-20201015.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 15, 2020
Raw hash: d25bc5cdcf024badff95ea9b074251473ae9ce91b1c4318c1dab2d5bc21c0cc9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityScholarship America, Inc.

Victim entityScholarship America, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responsePaid a ransom to the cybercriminal

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov