HackingOtherSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Operation Homefront

bd_7d427f3fe6848cdb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Sep 7, 2020

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

5,272state residents only

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Operation Homefront →

Operation Homefront notified the Washington AG of a third-party breach involving vendor Blackbaud. The breach occurred in May 2020; Operation Homefront was notified on July 16, 2020. 5,272 Washington residents were affected. No SSN or financial data was compromised. The incident is classified as a supply-chain compromise.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 76 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 53 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Sep 7, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,272 affectedView incident

Name: Operation Homefront
norm: operation homefront
Domain: operationhomefront.org

Name: Operation Homefront
norm: operation homefront
Domain: operationhomefront.org
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: May 1, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 76 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 3, 2020
Affected individuals: 5,272state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
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: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed notification with Washington Attorney General
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Reached out to Blackbaud for more information
Insisted that Blackbaud keep apprised of mitigation and remediation efforts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(53 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

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/BreachM10293.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 7, 2020
Raw hash: 72d4d794508242e4b1c6dfa4025e950e5d2117e200717a1d098865f5d3e8e698

Reporting entityOperation Homefront

Victim entityOperation Homefront

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseReached out to Blackbaud for more information

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com