HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryN-DayCredentialsIdentity (basic)AuthenticationEducationLowResolved

Corning Union High School District

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 11, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

74%

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Corning Union High School District notified families of a data breach involving its third-party Student Information System provider, Aeries Software, Inc. Unauthorized access to the Aeries SIS was first detected in late November 2019; an expanded investigation in March 2020 confirmed exposure of parent and student login information, physical addresses, email addresses, and password hashes. Aeries deployed security patches and the district reset portal passwords.

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Incident timeline

Nov 4, 2019

Begins

Jun 11, 2020

Filed

Part of Aeries supply-chain incident (2020) — 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: Corning Union High School District
norm: corning union high school district
Domain: cuhsdistrict.org

Name: Corning Union High School District
norm: corning union high school district
Domain: cuhsdistrict.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Nov 4, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: CredentialsIdentity (basic)AuthenticationEducation
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1110 Brute Force
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Aeries Software, Inc. (DBA Eagle Software)
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Reset the portal account passwords
Aeries Software deployed a series of security patches in the December 20, 2019 version of the Aeries SIS
Worked with the District and law enforcement officials to expand their earlier investigation
Aeries Software took immediate action to ensure that critical patches were deployed to ensure that the vulnerabilities were no longer a threat to the system
Changes made: Aeries Software has taken additional technical measures to prevent future incidents
Aeries Software is adopting new security protocols to increase protection of all student data
Aeries Software will be engaging an independent third party to assist them in conducting a complete audit and analysis of their system security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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/sb24-190790
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 11, 2020
Raw hash: 26879fc2175a33333c85ac1dc18b2077683a7c364666b398f6d45509746ab236

Reporting entityCorning Union High School District

Victim entityCorning Union High School District

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseReset the portal account passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov