MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)PIIMediumContained

Gonzaga Preparatory School, Inc.

bd_4bcfc70befeab192 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Aug 17, 2020

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

5,000state residents only

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Gonzaga Preparatory School, Inc. →

Gonzaga Preparatory School notified the Washington AG of a ransomware incident affecting its third-party vendor, Blackbaud, Inc. The incident occurred in May 2020 and was discovered on July 16, 2020. Approximately 5,000 Washington residents had their names, addresses, emails, graduation years, donation info, employer names, and dates of birth exposed. Notifications were mailed on August 14, 2020.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d5 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 76 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 32 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Aug 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,000 affectedView incident

Name: Gonzaga Preparatory School, Inc.
norm: gonzaga preparatory school

Name: Gonzaga Preparatory School, Inc.
norm: gonzaga preparatory school
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: May 1, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 76 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 14, 2020
Affected individuals: 5,000state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Data elements: NameDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 100-199dexposure 100-199d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed notification with Washington State Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via Blackbaud, Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Finished identifying a population of five thousand (5,000) Washington State residents that were potentially affected by this Incident
Mailed incident notification letters to affected residents
Re-evaluating its relationship with Blackbaud and the measures that Blackbaud is implementing to secure school data
Changes made: Re-evaluating its relationship with Blackbaud and the measures that Blackbaud is implementing to secure school data
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(32 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10245.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 17, 2020
Raw hash: e4bd9a1b2cc5f1bad823978adee6570de0c92e75569917c2288fb4cd06e46ef6

Reporting entityGonzaga Preparatory School, Inc.

Victim entityGonzaga Preparatory School, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseFinished identifying a population of five thousand (5,000) Washington State residents that were potentially affected by this Incident

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com