MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareRansom DemandedRansom PaidData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)PIIMediumContained

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

bd_7163da8dc563dbef · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 1, 2020

Filed

Aug 18, 2020

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

1,165state residents only

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION →2 incidents on file

University of South Carolina notified Washington AG of a third-party vendor (Blackbaud) ransomware incident. Attack occurred Feb-May 2020. Data exfiltrated included names, contact info, DOB, and giving history. 1,165 WA residents affected. Vendor paid ransom and destroyed data copy.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d16 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 84 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 109 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

May 1, 2020

Discovered

Aug 18, 2020

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,165 affectedView incident

Name: THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
norm: the university of south carolina development
Domain: sc.edu

Name: THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
norm: the university of south carolina development
Domain: sc.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 1, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 84 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 14, 2020
Affected individuals: 1,165state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Data elements: NameDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 100-199dexposure 100-199d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington State Attorney General

During the incident: Engaged independent forensics experts and law enforcement
Expelled the attacker from its system
Paid the cybercriminal's demand
Hired a third-party team of experts to monitor the dark web
Identified the vulnerability and taken actions to fix it
Confirmed through testing by multiple third parties that the fix withstands all known attack tactics
Accelerating efforts to further harden its environment through enhancements to access management, network segmentation and deployment of additional endpoint and network-based platforms
Changes made: Enhancements to access management
Network segmentation
Deployment of additional endpoint and network-based platforms
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(109 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10249.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 18, 2020
Raw hash: b13221d312bcab6caed588dea117ec68d19acdea5fc5177df8cf6928eb9a7990

Reporting entityTHE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

Victim entityTHE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

Incidentdiscovered May 1, 2020

Stated responseEngaged independent forensics experts and law enforcement

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com