HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 13, 2017

Filed

Mar 16, 2017

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, INC. →

Northwest Christian Schools, Inc. notified affected individuals on February 13, 2017, of a data security incident discovered on the same date. Unauthorized access may have exposed employee names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, and banking info. The school disabled server access, engaged IT providers for system rebuilds, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Feb 13, 2017

Discovered

Mar 16, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_b6bc93116832e1532017-03-16Verified

Name: NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, INC.
norm: northwest christian schools

Name: NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, INC.
norm: northwest christian schools
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Feb 13, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 13, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disabled access to the servers which stored the information
Engaged its information technology provider to complete a rebuild of its computer systems
Offering credit monitoring and identity protection services for 12 months at no cost
Changes made: Taken steps to enhance the security of NWCS employee information in order to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Washington State AGMar 16 · first

Montana State AGMar 16 · first · this page

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/Northwest-Christian-Schools.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 16, 2017
Raw hash: 883ccbce6a11b12e0420077cafb5ca0170ae8e890761d77c86f3d5101aac112d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, INC.

Victim entityNORTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 13, 2017

Stated responseDisabled access to the servers which stored the information

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov