MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedRansom DemandedRansom PaidCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Fairmont Private Schools

bd_111a51abfc2d970f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 29, 2020

Filed

Jan 19, 2021

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Fairmont Private Schools →

Fairmont Private Schools notified individuals that their personal information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security or Tax Identification numbers, may have been accessed due to a ransomware attack on third-party vendor Blackbaud. The attack occurred between February and May 20, 2020. Fairmont was notified of the exposure of legacy data files on September 29, 2020. Blackbaud paid a ransom to the cyber-criminal. Affected individuals are offered 24 months of free credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 241 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 112 days

Feb 1, 2020

Begins

Sep 29, 2020

Discovered

Jan 19, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 2 filings 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_63bc614d634350702021-01-20 · +1dVerified

Name: Fairmont Private Schools
norm: fairmont private schools

Name: Fairmont Private Schools
norm: fairmont private schools
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 29, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 241 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Engaged Blackbaud and FBI to investigate the incident
Verified and determined scope of exposure with cooperation of Blackbaud
Offered free credit monitoring and fraud assistance services for 24 months through CyberScout
Changes made: Blackbaud implemented changes to their data security protocols to prevent a similar incident from occurring again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(112 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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California State AGJan 19 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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/sb24-537257
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 19, 2021
Raw hash: c559c87ee3647275dbfea5b8dbed02ffe79f93e2dd4f20be1605c0cc63688397

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFairmont Private Schools

Victim entityFairmont Private Schools

Incidentdiscovered Sep 29, 2020

Stated responseEngaged Blackbaud and FBI to investigate the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov