MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Ransom DemandedRansom PaidData DestroyedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)BehaviorLowContained

Ventura College Foundation

bd_73c3b4a55fa630d9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Jul 28, 2020

To disclose

12 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Ventura College Foundation →

Ventura College Foundation experienced a ransomware attack on its third-party database vendor, Blackbaud. The attack occurred between February 7, 2020, and May 20, 2020, and was discovered by the Foundation on July 16, 2020. Compromised data included donor contact information (name, address, phone, email), demographic data (age, gender, birthday), and donation history. Credit card, bank account, and SSN data were not accessed. Blackbaud paid a ransom after evidence showed stolen data was destroyed.

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California clockDiscovered Jul 16, 2020 → Notified Jul 23, 20207d ✓ CA 60-day OK12 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 160 days

discovery → filing · 12 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Jul 28, 2020

Filed

Part of BLACKBAUD, INC. supply-chain incident (2020) — 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: Ventura College Foundation
norm: ventura college
Domain: venturacollegefoundation.org

Name: Ventura College Foundation
norm: ventura college
Domain: venturacollegefoundation.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 160 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 23, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Behavior
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Submitted electronically to the State of California Department of Justice, Attorney General’s office
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Alerted members of our Board of Directors
Alerted Ventura College’s Executive Leadership and I.T. Services Department
Alerted the Ventura County Community College District’s Campus Police Department
Contacting all database and donor constituents via electronic or mail notification
Changes made: Work hard to further secure our systems
Vet our partners’ security protocols
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 7d
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: Jul 16, 2020
→ Notified: Jul 23, 2020
7d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jul 16, 2020 → Notified: Jul 23, 2020	7d	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/sb24-192468
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 28, 2020
Raw hash: 0058993dbbfdf7d0dd606def963774f8617eb0880b3572dec3ebdace98a53025

Reporting entityVentura College Foundation

Victim entityVentura College Foundation

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseAlerted members of our Board of Directors

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov