PhysicalEducationEducationTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)EducationMinorMediumContained

Hillsboro-Deering School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 30, 2020

Filed

Mar 30, 2021

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

13state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Hillsboro-Deering School District →

Hillsboro-Deering School District reported the theft of an employee laptop containing encrypted personal information of 13 students. The decryption key was present on the device. Data included names, grades, and accommodation assessments. The district encrypted the drive remotely and notified affected parties and regulators.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 120 days

Nov 30, 2020

Begins

Nov 30, 2020

Discovered

Mar 30, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed13 affectedView incident

Name: Hillsboro-Deering School District
norm: hillsboro deering school district
Domain: hdsd.org

Name: Hillsboro-Deering School District
norm: hillsboro deering school district
Domain: hdsd.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Nov 30, 2020
Breach occurred: Nov 30, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 26, 2021
Affected individuals: 13state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)EducationMinor
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the Attorney General Consumer Protection and Antitrust BureauNotified Commissioner of Education State of New HampshireNotified Chief Information Security Office State of New Hampshire

During the incident: Began the hard drive encryption processes without the need for an external key
Reported the device's disappearance to local law enforcement
Notified affected individuals via US mail
Changes made: Development of policy to clarify employee responsibility to secure equipment entrusted to them by the school district
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(120 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/hillsboro-deering-20210330.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 30, 2021
Raw hash: bfe474e2c41f58f021b30168fc032870a4fbc4321c7869b77942601e4b582ba4

Reporting entityHillsboro-Deering School District

Victim entityHillsboro-Deering School District

Incidentdiscovered Nov 30, 2020

Stated responseBegan the hard drive encryption processes without the need for an external key

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov