MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareRansom DemandedRansom PaidData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)PIILowContained

Scholarship America, Inc.

bd_68b76c891c103d12 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

May 1, 2020

Filed

Sep 9, 2020

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Scholarship America, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Scholarship America notified Montana AG of a Blackbaud ransomware incident. Hackers accessed datacenters in Feb 2020, discovered in May 2020. Stolen files were destroyed after ransom paid. PII involved. Notification sent Sept 9, 2020.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 90 days

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 131 days

Feb 1, 2020

Begins

May 1, 2020

Discovered

Sep 9, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 3 filings 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

New Hampshire State AGbd_0e307f72e14983f92020-10-15 · +36dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_cf45eedf58a6d9552020-10-15 · +36dVerified

Name: Scholarship America, Inc.
norm: scholarship america

Name: Scholarship America, Inc.
norm: scholarship america
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 1, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2020
Undetected for: 90 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 9, 2020
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PII
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Blackbaud hired outside experts to continue to monitor the Internet, including the dark web
Offering free credit monitoring services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(131 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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Montana State AGSep 9 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+36d

Massachusetts State AG+36d

Pattern: first filing Sep 9 (MT), last Oct 15 (MA) — a 36-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Breach-NotificationDetails-207.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 9, 2020
Raw hash: c0772f45dfd08d60589a3f345a3951f6e6460ed4f6833c622ea1e1b99cfe90d7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityScholarship America, Inc.

Victim entityScholarship America, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 1, 2020

Stated responseBlackbaud hired outside experts to continue to monitor the Internet, including the dark web

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov