HackingEducationFinancial ServicesEducationStolen CredentialsCapture Stored DataSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHealth (basic)MediumContained

Carruth Compliance Consulting

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 21, 2024

Filed

Feb 28, 2025

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

66%

Seaside School District notified Montana residents that third-party administrator Carruth Compliance Consulting experienced a data security incident on December 21, 2024. Unauthorized access may have exposed names, SSNs, financial account info, and other PII of current/former employees and beneficiaries. Carruth engaged forensic specialists and notified the FBI. The District is offering 12 months of credit monitoring via IDX.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 69 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Dec 21, 2024

Discovered

Feb 28, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: Seaside School District 10
norm: seaside school district 10
Domain: seaside.k12.or.us

Name: Carruth Compliance Consulting
norm: carruth compliance consulting
Domain: seaside.k12.or.us
Industry: EducationllmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 21, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Began working with third-party specialists to investigate the activity
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Offering 12 months of credit and CyberScan monitoring
Providing a $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy
Providing fully managed identity theft recovery services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(69 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/2025/03/Consumer-notification-letter-122.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2025
Raw hash: e9a3a4bdff2b3118cd51bdba73132632c26c7072b904a258d79a22b6157d40a9

Reporting entitySeaside School District 10

Victim entityCarruth Compliance Consulting

Incidentdiscovered Dec 21, 2024

Stated responseBegan working with third-party specialists to investigate the activity

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov