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HackingEducationEducationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDCriticalResolved

Georgia Southern University

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

Jul 24, 2020

Filed

Oct 9, 2020

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected · nationwide

172,81380 in this filing

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Georgia Southern University →5 incidents on file

Georgia Southern University experienced a data breach impacting 80 Maine residents. The breach occurred between February 7, 2020, and May 20, 2020, and was discovered on July 24, 2020. The compromised information included names and Social Security numbers. The breach was a result of an external system breach (hacking). The university offered one year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Kroll.

Maine clockDiscovered Jul 24, 2020 → Filed with AG Oct 9, 202077d ⏱ ME AG >30d11 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

undetected · 168 days
discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 77 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 24, 2020

Discovered

Oct 9, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 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

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 38d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGOct 9 · first
Indiana State AGOct 9 · first
California State AGOct 9 · first
Maine State AGOct 9 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+4d
Maine State AG+35d
Washington State AG+35d
New Hampshire State AG+38d

Pattern: first filing Oct 9 (MA), last Nov 16 (NH) — a 38-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.