MalwareHealthcareOtherHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedData ExfiltratedTargetedEducationFinancial accountHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDPHIPIIHighContained

Mississippi Children's Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children's Home Services, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Apr 4, 2023

Filed

Apr 11, 2024

To disclose

12 months

Affected

2,477state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Mississippi Children's Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children's Home Services, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Mississippi Children's Home Services, Inc. (d.b.a. Canopy Children's Solutions) disclosed a ransomware incident discovered on April 4, 2023. Unauthorized actors accessed systems, encrypted files, and potentially exfiltrated PII including SSNs, driver's licenses, financial account info, and medical data. 2,477 Washington residents were notified on April 11, 2024. The organization engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement, and provided 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d12 months discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 months / 373 days

Apr 4, 2023

Begins

Apr 4, 2023

Discovered

Apr 11, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+44 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_2cde3cadb662fb5c2024-04-11Verified
Indiana State AGbd_2de4fdf5e0e14b0c2024-04-11Verified
Montana State AGbd_58d85b91b4f8f94f2024-04-11Verified
Vermont State AGbd_700f3804cc461f092024-04-11Verified

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Vermont State AGbd_a935f72f5c5e202f2024-02-01 · +70dCandidate

Name: Mississippi Children's Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children's Home Services, Inc.
norm: mississippi children s home society cares center inc mississippi children s home
Industry: Non-Profit/Charity

Name: Mississippi Children's Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children's Home Services, Inc.
norm: mississippi children s home society cares center inc mississippi children s home
Industry: Non-Profit/Charity
Also named: Mississippi Children’s Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children’s Home Services, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Canopy Children’s Solutionsdba oftrade name
Industry: HealthcarellmOtherllm

Discovered: Apr 4, 2023
Breach occurred: Apr 4, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 11, 2024
Affected individuals: 2,477state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PII
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence numberFinancial account numberDate of birthStudent ID numberHealth insurance IDMedical information
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 0dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notifying applicable regulators including the US Department of Health and Human Services

During the incident: Took steps to secure its systems
Launched an investigation into the full nature and scope of the event with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists
Notified federal law enforcement regarding the event
Providing access to credit monitoring services for one (1) year through Experian to individuals whose Social Security number was potentially affected by this incident, at no cost to these individuals
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and training to its employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 months(373 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

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Vermont State AGFeb 1 · first

Maine State AG+70d

Indiana State AG+70d

Montana State AG+70d

Vermont State AG+70d

Washington State AG+70d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 1 (VT), last Apr 11 (WA) — a 70-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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA28631.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 11, 2024
Raw hash: 23c09ebbc207cb4aa00a08f451354a6729a1683bbd31e46e4a7ce144b2f8072c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMississippi Children's Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children's Home Services, Inc.

Victim entityMississippi Children's Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children's Home Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Apr 4, 2023

Stated responseTook steps to secure its systems

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com