MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData MishandlingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedRansom DemandedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Stetson

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Oct 8, 2020

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

198state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Stetson →

Stetson University notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a third-party data breach involving Blackbaud. The incident involved an attempted ransomware attack and data exfiltration between Feb 7 and May 20, 2020. 198 NH residents' names and SSNs were potentially compromised. Stetson is offering 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 160 days

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 84 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Oct 8, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of BLACKBAUD, INC. supply-chain incident (2020) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_22af5c9dfd8abdf12020-11-03 · +26dVerified
California State AGbd_6d112560d028361e2020-11-03 · +26dVerified

Name: Stetson
norm: stetson
Domain: stetson.com

Name: Stetson
norm: stetson
Domain: stetson.com
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 160 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 2, 2020
Affected individuals: 198state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Gordon MacDonald
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Commenced an investigation
Engaged external cybersecurity professionals
Providing the affected residents with written notification
Providing the residents with 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring
Changes made: Blackbaud teams were able to quickly identify the vulnerability associated with this incident, including the tactics used by the cybercriminal, and took action to fix it
Accelerating their efforts to further harden their environment through enhancements to access management, network segmentation, deployment of additional endpoint and network-based platforms
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(84 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGOct 8 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+26d

California State AG+26d

Pattern: first filing Oct 8 (NH), last Nov 3 (CA) — a 26-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/stetson-university-20201008.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 8, 2020
Raw hash: 2d5c13b0f6778feeffc51b568691941b59e9d88f08847f7985a264524b2c3146

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityStetson

Victim entityStetson

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseCommenced an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov