MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumActive

BC High Catholic High School in Boston

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Mar 22, 2021

To disclose

36 weeks

Affected

10state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for BC High Catholic High School in Boston →

Boston College High School reported a data security incident involving its third-party provider, Blackbaud. A threat actor conducted an attempted ransomware attack and exfiltrated data from Blackbaud's systems between February 7, 2020, and May 20, 2020. The incident affected 10 New Hampshire residents, whose names, Social Security numbers, and financial account numbers may have been accessed. The school provided 12 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 160 days

discovery → filing · 36 weeks / 249 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Mar 22, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+27 wks slower

Part of BLACKBAUD, INC. 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.Confirmed10 affectedView incident

Name: BC High Catholic High School in Boston
norm: bc high catholic high school in boston
Domain: bchigh.edu

Name: BC High Catholic High School in Boston
norm: bc high catholic high school in boston
Domain: bchigh.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 160 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 15, 2021
Affected individuals: 10state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Submitted Report of Blackbaud Data Security Incident to New Hampshire Attorney General
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Commenced an investigation
Engaged cybersecurity professionals
Provided written notification to affected residents
Provided 12-months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services
Changes made: Closed the vulnerability that allowed the incident
Enhancing security controls
Conducting ongoing efforts against incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 36 weeks(249 days from discovery to filing)
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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/boston-college-high-school-20210322.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 22, 2021
Raw hash: 6e56d70b71aab4181873f789d1e18fefb4651b562c8b97e2557b7a1c655999dc

Reporting entityBC High Catholic High School in Boston

Victim entityBC High Catholic High School in Boston

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseCommenced an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov