MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

University of South Dakota Foundation

bd_91e7789fea303258 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Dec 4, 2020

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for University of South Dakota Foundation →

University of South Dakota Foundation (USDF) notified of a ransomware attack on its third-party vendor Blackbaud on July 16, 2020. Personal information of employees and vendors may have been exposed. USDF engaged outside counsel and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 141 days

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Dec 4, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 5 filings 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 (4) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_6da8c87e1e6d486d2020-12-04Verified
Maine State AGbd_e08c7b60ca36b43a2020-12-04Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_e1c8627b6aa8c7f52020-12-04Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_2628c9b72e0a7a262020-12-07 · +3dVerified

Name: University of South Dakota Foundation
norm: university of south dakota
Domain: usdfoundation.org

Name: University of South Dakota Foundation
norm: university of south dakota
Domain: usdfoundation.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Engaged outside counsel to further investigate the extent of the breach
Offered 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring through CyberScout
Changes made: Strengthened the Blackbaud network
Better secured data stored in the Blackbaud environment
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(141 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGDec 4 · first

Maine State AGDec 4 · first

Massachusetts State AGDec 4 · first

Montana State AGDec 4 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+3d

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/southdakSampREAL.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 4, 2020
Raw hash: a7f50e78d64cf5b3101eb00b587eba603508a0305bd44520855aa2a6f579a38f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUniversity of South Dakota Foundation

Victim entityUniversity of South Dakota Foundation

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseEngaged outside counsel to further investigate the extent of the breach

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov