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HackingEducationEducationIdentity (basic)Government IDCritical

Fairfax County Public Schools

bd_2f6404a7d799f9d3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Critical

Discovered

Sep 6, 2020

Filed

Feb 28, 2021

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected · nationwide

172,12893 in this filing

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Fairfax County Public Schools

Fairfax County Public Schools, an educational institution, experienced an external system breach (hacking) that occurred from August 21, 2020, to September 5, 2020. The breach was discovered on September 6, 2020. The compromised information included names and Social Security numbers. A total of 172,128 individuals were affected, including 93 residents of Maine. Notification to the affected consumers was sent on January 21, 2021, and 12 months of identity and credit monitoring services were offered through Experian.

Maine clockDiscovered Sep 6, 2020Filed with AG Feb 28, 2021175d ME AG >90d25 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 · 16 days
discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 175 days

Aug 21, 2020

Begins

Sep 6, 2020

Discovered

Feb 28, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident
A leak claim by maze about this victim predates this filing by 170 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filingsup to 111d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGNov 9 · first
Indiana State AGNov 9 · first
Maine State AG+111d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 9 (MT), last Feb 28 (ME) — a 111-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.