HackingEducationEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)EducationEmploymentLowContained

Santee School District

bd_5a71b8d45695958b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 22, 2024

Filed

Jan 13, 2025

To disclose

22 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Santee School District →

Santee School District notified residents that its Student Information System vendor, PowerSchool, was hacked between December 19-23, 2024. Student and staff data was downloaded by an unauthorized user. PowerSchool contained the breach. The district does not store SSNs in PowerSchool. Credit monitoring services are being provided.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 22 days

Dec 19, 2024

Begins

Dec 22, 2024

Discovered

Jan 13, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Part of PowerSchool supply-chain incident (2025) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

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

Name: Santee School District
norm: santee school district
Domain: santeesd.net

Name: Santee School District
norm: santee school district
Domain: santeesd.net
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 22, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 19, 2024 – Dec 23, 2024
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)EducationEmployment
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Third party: via PowerSchool
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: PowerSchool took action to contain this event and prevent the hackers from using the data
PowerSchool is working diligently to provide resources for our families and staff, including credit monitoring and identity protection services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 days(22 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-597295
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 13, 2025
Raw hash: a59257e9313eee151f25d10ef25910defc45eeda489a0c66ccdc43bb47d512b1

Reporting entitySantee School District

Victim entitySantee School District

Incidentdiscovered Dec 22, 2024

Stated responsePowerSchool took action to contain this event and prevent the hackers from using the data

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov