HackingEducationEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)EducationEmploymentHealth (basic)LocationLowContained

Salinas City Elementary School District

bd_6dfda2dac39d524c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 7, 2025

Filed

Jan 27, 2025

To disclose

20 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Salinas City Elementary School District →

Salinas City Elementary School District notified the California AG of a data breach involving its former student information system provider, PowerSchool. The breach occurred on December 22, 2024, and was discovered on January 7, 2025. Legacy student and staff data (including names, DOBs, addresses, and medical alerts) for individuals enrolled or employed before June 2021 was accessed. PowerSchool is providing two years of identity protection services.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 7, 2025 → Notified Jan 24, 202517d ✓ CA 60-day OK20 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 16 days

discovery → filing · 20 days

Dec 22, 2024

Begins

Jan 7, 2025

Discovered

Jan 27, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Part of PowerSchool supply-chain incident (2025) — 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: Salinas City Elementary School District
norm: salinas city elementary school district
Domain: salinascityesd.org

Name: Salinas City Elementary School District
norm: salinas city elementary school district
Domain: salinascityesd.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 7, 2025
Breach occurred: Dec 22, 2024
Undetected for: 16 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 24, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)EducationEmploymentHealth (basic)Location
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Report this breach to the California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC)Report this breach to the California Attorney General’s Office
Third party: via PowerSchool
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Work with PowerSchool to report this breach to the California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC) and the California Attorney General’s Office
Created a webpage containing more information, including a list of frequently asked questions
Send updates through ParentSquare and update the website as needed
Changes made: PowerSchool will offer two years of complimentary identity protection services for all students and District staff involved in this incident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 days(20 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 17d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Jan 7, 2025
→ Notified: Jan 24, 2025
17d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 7, 2025 → Notified: Jan 24, 2025	17d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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/sb24-597852
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2025
Raw hash: 946a11cfb2fa96098b98ac9380b29c34e92a389b4c703d29ec9138c37037781a

Reporting entitySalinas City Elementary School District

Victim entitySalinas City Elementary School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 7, 2025

Stated responseWork with PowerSchool to report this breach to the California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC) and the California Attorney General’s Office

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov