MisuseEducationEducationPrivilege AbuseData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Litchfield School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 6, 2021

Filed

Jan 19, 2022

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

630state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Litchfield School District →

Litchfield School District (NH) notified the NH Attorney General of a data security incident discovered on December 6, 2021. An individual with authorized access to student records shared special education documents to a personal email account between September 14 and December 8, 2021. Approximately 630 students were affected, with 198 receiving direct notification. Data included names, DOBs, addresses, and SASIDs; no SSNs or financial data were implicated. The District terminated access, restored privacy settings, and conducted forensic analysis.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 83 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 44 days

Sep 14, 2021

Begins

Dec 6, 2021

Discovered

Jan 19, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed630 affectedView incident

Name: Litchfield School District
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Name: Litchfield School District
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Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 6, 2021
Breach occurred: Sep 14, 2021 – Dec 8, 2021
Undetected for: 83 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 28, 2021
Affected individuals: 630state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General Consumer Protection Bureau
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Terminating access to the offending email address
Restoring privacy restrictions to the records at issue
Reminding staff of the School District’s privacy and security practices and expectations
Conducting a forensic analysis of the computer systems that were implicated
Interviewing staff regarding the incident
Identifying what types of files and information were accessed
Changes made: Strengthen the security of our systems to help prevent future incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(44 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/litchfield-school-district-20220119.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 19, 2022
Raw hash: 652d98e480cbcfe3c250e8772a8a670f64d4821b7b3b8d7f6be5869fc7335733

Reporting entityLitchfield School District

Victim entityLitchfield School District

Incidentdiscovered Dec 6, 2021

Stated responseTerminating access to the offending email address

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov