HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Adams 12 Five Star Schools

bd_3f22f3babaaf1217 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 15, 2019

Filed

Aug 9, 2019

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Adams 12 Five Star Schools →

Adams 12 Five Star Schools notified affected individuals of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between Feb 15-19, 2019. The breach exposed PII including names, SSNs, and DOBs of students and employees. Forensic investigators confirmed the scope on June 12, 2019. Kroll was engaged for identity theft restoration services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 175 days

Feb 15, 2019

Begins

Feb 15, 2019

Discovered

Aug 9, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+18 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed7 affectedView incident

Name: Adams 12 Five Star Schools
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Name: Adams 12 Five Star Schools
norm: adams 12 five star schools
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Feb 15, 2019
Breach occurred: Feb 15, 2019 – Feb 19, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Began an investigation to determine what happened and what information may have been affected
Working with third-party forensic investigators
Conducted an extensive investigation to understand all information within the email accounts that was potentially accessible
Secured the services of Kroll to provide Fraud Consultation and Identity Theft Restoration services
Changes made: Working to review and enhance these protections as part of our ongoing commitment to data security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(175 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Breach-NotificationDetails1.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 9, 2019
Raw hash: 2679acc373ca528a86be3f7bb9757f1adf7dfcb48fb50c3f81c04bb7bc57fabd

Reporting entityAdams 12 Five Star Schools

Victim entityAdams 12 Five Star Schools

Incidentdiscovered Feb 15, 2019

Stated responseBegan an investigation to determine what happened and what information may have been affected

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov