HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Cherokee County School District

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 13, 2025

Filed

Sep 3, 2025

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

46,119state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Cherokee County School District →

Cherokee County School District (SC) notified the SC Attorney General on Sept 3, 2025, of a March 2025 incident where a third party gained unauthorized access to IT systems. Data accessed included names, SSNs, driver's licenses, passports, financial account info, and health data for 46,119 SC residents. CCSD engaged forensic responders, notified the FBI, and offered credit monitoring.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >90d25 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 174 days

Mar 13, 2025

Discovered

Sep 3, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+18 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by interlock about this victim predates this filing by 171 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Siteinterlockbd_fd871bfcff1e1ec62025-03-16 · +171dCandidate

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Pressinterlockbd_aaebd69abc7831a52025-03-15 · +172dCandidate

Name: Thompson Hine LLP
norm: thompson hine

Name: Cherokee County School District
norm: cherokee county school district
Domain: cherokee1.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Mar 13, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 28, 2025
Affected individuals: 46,119state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Notified local law enforcement
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Deployed security measures to contain and mitigate the issue
Retained a leading cybersecurity incident response team
Proactively notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and local law enforcement
Hired a third party to undertake an extensive and a comprehensive review of these files and records
Began notifying all individuals whose personal data may have been impacted
Offered all individuals impacted by this incident complimentary, multi-year credit monitoring services through TransUnion
Established a dedicated call center to answer any questions
Changes made: Made technical configuration changes to all accounts to prevent any further unauthorized access
Implementing certain types of privacy and security training
Retained independent third-party IT security consultants to analyze the incident, including our information security tools and the status of our data security hygiene
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(174 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >90dSC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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PressMar 15 · first

South Carolina State AG+172d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 15, last Sep 3 (SC) — a 172-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/2025/Consumer%20Notice%20-%20Cherokee.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 3, 2025
Raw hash: 213c7261e059fea81a64b78392a4358661a8e1f9868ba9b1069fcdacd3ac20a7

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThompson Hine LLP

Victim entityCherokee County School District

Incidentdiscovered Mar 13, 2025

Stated responseDeployed security measures to contain and mitigate the issue

ComplianceLeak >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov