MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Bristol Community College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Sep 4, 2020

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Bristol Community College →5 incidents on file

Bristol Community College notified the NH Attorney General of a third-party ransomware incident involving vendor Blackbaud, Inc. Unauthorized access to donor data occurred between April 18 and May 7, 2020. The incident affected 3 New Hampshire residents, exposing names and Social Security Numbers. Bristol notified affected individuals on September 4, 2020, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 89 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 50 days

Apr 18, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Sep 4, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of BLACKBAUD, INC. supply-chain incident (2020) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_1d25d61d245be91a2020-09-04Verified

Name: Bristol Community College
norm: bristol community college

Name: Bristol Community College
norm: bristol community college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 18, 2020 – May 7, 2020
Undetected for: 89 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 4, 2020
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Conducted a comprehensive search for any personal information stored in the Blackbaud system
Formally notifying the potentially impacted New Hampshire residents
Offering them complimentary credit monitoring
Reviewing its relationship with Blackbaud and the technical controls in place for securing Bristol’s data in the Blackbaud systems
Changes made: Reviewing its relationship with Blackbaud and the technical controls in place for securing Bristol’s data in the Blackbaud systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(50 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 4 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 4 · first · this page

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/bristol-community-college-20200904.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 4, 2020
Raw hash: 25ba3460db34be916442ce830715b15ab6fef3b9bc88a23f2ad5f6c0146c068a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBristol Community College

Victim entityBristol Community College

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseConducted a comprehensive search for any personal information stored in the Blackbaud system

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov