Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingStolen CredentialsDelayed DiscoveryTargetedCredentialsIdentity (basic)LowContained

Salem School District

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 21, 2019

Filed

Mar 4, 2019

To disclose

11 days

Affected

72scope not determined

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Salem School District →

Salem School District notified NH AG of a phishing incident where an administrator received a Bitcoin extortion email. Investigation revealed 72 accounts had credentials compromised in a 2013 breach. No PII other than usernames and passwords was affected. Accounts were notified to change passwords.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2242 days

discovery → filing · 11 days

Jan 1, 2013

Begins

Feb 21, 2019

Discovered

Mar 4, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed72 affectedView incident

Name: Salem School District
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Name: Salem School District
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Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Feb 21, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2013 – Dec 31, 2013
Undetected for: 2,242 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2019
Affected individuals: 72scope not determined
Data types: CredentialsIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified our SP AM filter service provider
A technical adjustment was made
Reviewed more than 140,000 log entries
Notify these account holder s that their passwords were available on the web
Recommend that individual s change their email passwords
Changes made: A technical adjustment was made to protect against such messages
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 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/salem-school-20190304.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 4, 2019
Raw hash: 01e2214ebaa995b282caef86694bda519e86394d2634abd7cfd60c94d9006ec6

Reporting entitySalem School District

Victim entitySalem School District

Incidentdiscovered Feb 21, 2019

Stated responseNotified our SP AM filter service provider

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov