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Vermont State Colleges

bd_647189aef77f3c08 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Mar 2, 2021

To disclose

33 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Vermont State Colleges

Vermont State Colleges (VSC) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on February 24, 2021, of a data event involving its third-party vendor, Blackbaud, Inc. Blackbaud experienced a ransomware attack in May 2020, resulting in system encryption and data exfiltration before the threat actor was locked out on May 20, 2020. VSC's investigation determined that potentially affected data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and financial account information. Five New Hampshire residents were identified as potentially affected. VSC provided 12 months of credit monitoring through Kroll and is implementing additional safeguards.

Incident timeline

undetected · 76 days
discovery → filing · 33 weeks / 229 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Mar 2, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+24 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 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 (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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.