HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 29, 2020

Filed

Nov 27, 2020

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY →

Southern College of Optometry (SCO) notified Montana residents of a data breach involving its vendor, Blackbaud. Unauthorized access occurred between Feb 7 and May 20, 2020. SCO discovered the incident on Sept 29, 2020, when Blackbaud revealed SCO data was unencrypted and potentially accessed. Affected data included names, addresses, SSNs, DOBs, and phone numbers. Blackbaud engaged law enforcement and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 235 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Sep 29, 2020

Discovered

Nov 27, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_79a36e9103c835e72020-12-02 · +5dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_c84d47b6eac2d4982020-11-20 · +7dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_0506ce1973a9c7a62020-12-07 · +10dVerified

Name: SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
norm: southern college of optometry
Domain: sco.edu

Name: SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY
norm: southern college of optometry
Domain: sco.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 29, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 235 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 1, 2020
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Began its own investigation to determine what data pertaining to any current or former SCO students may been involved in the incident
Requested additional information from Blackbaud
Vendor worked with cybersecurity experts and law enforcement to investigate the incident
Vendor took steps to obtain confirmation that the files removed from its network had been destroyed
Vendor monitoring the internet for any evidence of disclosure of the information involved
Vendor made arrangements to provide complimentary credit monitoring services
Changes made: Implementing additional safeguards such as encryption
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Indiana State AGNov 20 · first

Montana State AG+7d · this page

Maine State AG+12d

Massachusetts State AG+17d

Pattern: first filing Nov 20 (IN), last Dec 7 (MA) — a 17-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/scoSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 27, 2020
Raw hash: 7bf2278c691e6cab0357af9c8b1f55e3f15b12d94203080789dd3c1c30c9c068

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY

Victim entitySOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY

Incidentdiscovered Sep 29, 2020

Stated responseBegan its own investigation to determine what data pertaining to any current or former SCO students may been involved in the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov