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Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation

bd_2413169b7c24c089 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 3, 2020

Filed

Sep 28, 2020

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected · nationwide

961 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation →

Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation, a non-profit organization, reported a data breach affecting 96 individuals, including one Maine resident. The breach, described as an external system hack, occurred between February 7, 2020, and May 20, 2020, and was discovered on August 3, 2020. The compromised information included names in combination with Social Security numbers. Affected individuals were notified on September 28, 2020, and offered one year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian.

Maine clockDiscovered Aug 3, 2020 → Filed with AG Sep 28, 202056d ⏱ ME AG >30d8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 178 days
discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Aug 3, 2020

Discovered

Sep 28, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 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

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGSep 28 · first
Indiana State AGSep 28 · first
Maine State AGSep 28 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+45d

Pattern: first filing Sep 28 (MA), last Nov 12 (NH) — a 45-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.