HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Beverly Hills Unified School District

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 27, 2020

Filed

Jul 2, 2020

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Beverly Hills Unified School District →

Beverly Hills Unified School District notified parents that an unauthorized individual exploited a vulnerability in the Aeries Student Information System software. The exploit occurred in late November 2019, but the District was notified on April 27, 2020. Affected data included parent/student names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and hashed passwords. The District required password changes and installed the software patch provided by Aeries.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 178 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 66 days

Nov 1, 2019

Begins

Apr 27, 2020

Discovered

Jul 2, 2020

Filed

Part of Aeries 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: Beverly Hills Unified School District
norm: beverly hills unified school district
Domain: bhusd.org

Name: Beverly Hills Unified School District
norm: beverly hills unified school district
Domain: bhusd.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 27, 2020
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2019 – Nov 30, 2019
Undetected for: 178 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Aeries
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Increased security for passwords
Required all account holders whose accounts were involved to change their passwords
Contacted Aeries
Law enforcement launched an investigation
Changes made: Installed the software patch that Aeries made available to remedy the vulnerability
Reviewing existing policies and procedures to mitigate any risk associated with this incident and to better prevent future incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(66 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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/sb24-191685
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 2, 2020
Raw hash: 5e007f476903ecc843227315c7d588ec75e73b3d43f72191ec1ebfba3987b892

Reporting entityBeverly Hills Unified School District

Victim entityBeverly Hills Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Apr 27, 2020

Stated responseIncreased security for passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov