HackingEducationFinancial ServicesEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)MediumContained

Lincoln County School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 13, 2025

Filed

Mar 2, 2025

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Lincoln County School District →2 incidents on file

Carruth Compliance Consulting, a third-party administrator for retirement plans, experienced a data security incident on December 21, 2024, where personal information was acquired without authorization. Lincoln County School District, a client, notified the Maryland Attorney General on February 28, 2025, regarding approximately 5 Maryland residents affected. Data exposed may include names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, financial account info, and medical billing information. Carruth engaged third-party specialists and notified the FBI. Affected individuals were offered credit monitoring and identity theft protection.

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Maryland clock⏱ MD AG >30d7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 23 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Jan 13, 2025

Discovered

Mar 2, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

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

Part of Carruth Compliance Consulting supply-chain incident (2025) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_6cf730ff8987413c2025-03-02Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_eb1f680179752a022025-03-03 · +1dVerified by operator

Name: Lincoln County School District
norm: lincoln county school district
Domain: lincoln.k12.or.us

Name: Lincoln County School District
norm: lincoln county school district
Domain: lincoln.k12.or.us
Industry: EducationllmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 13, 2025
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 23 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting

During the incident: Began an investigation to determine what happened and what data was involved
Worked with third-party specialists to investigate the activity
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Established a toll-free call center through IDX to answer questions
Notified potentially affected individuals
Provided steps to protect personal information
Changes made: Offered complimentary identity protection services including 12 months of credit monitoring, dark web monitoring, $1 million identity fraud loss reimbursement policy, and fully managed identity theft recovery services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 2 · first

Maryland State AGMar 2 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+1d

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.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376465.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 2, 2025
Raw hash: e5df128893c43ee87329d015b70236ee3026f1b2028fa33a20a229bd608cc1a3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLincoln County School District

Victim entityLincoln County School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 13, 2025

Stated responseBegan an investigation to determine what happened and what data was involved

ComplianceMD AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov