HackingEducationEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Woodland Unified School District

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 27, 2020

Filed

Nov 4, 2020

To disclose

27 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

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Woodland Unified School District notified individuals of a potential data incident involving their third-party student data management vendor, Aeries Software, Inc. Unauthorized access to the Aeries Student Information System potentially occurred on November 4, 2019. The district was notified by Aeries on April 27, 2020. Affected data included names, physical addresses, email addresses, and hashed usernames/passwords. The district launched an investigation, reviewed affected records, and encouraged password changes.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 175 days

discovery → filing · 27 weeks / 191 days

Nov 4, 2019

Begins

Apr 27, 2020

Discovered

Nov 4, 2020

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Woodland Unified School District
norm: woodland unified school district

Name: Woodland Unified School District
norm: woodland unified school district
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 27, 2020
Breach occurred: Nov 4, 2019
Undetected for: 175 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Regulator citations: Reported this incident to state regulators
Third party: via Aeries Software, Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the event
Undertook a comprehensive review of our Aeries SIS to confirm the type of information it contained and to whom it related
Working with Aeries to confirm actions they are taking and measures they are putting in place to prevent the reoccurrence
Reported this incident to state regulators
Changes made: Encouraged users to change their Aeries SIS password
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 weeks(191 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-195840
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 4, 2020
Raw hash: f7a4d6cc5182a3576be71b2e30e383e4ef989aac5c87af9e3e78e2218071312d

Reporting entityWoodland Unified School District

Victim entityWoodland Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Apr 27, 2020

Stated responseLaunched an investigation into the nature and scope of the event

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov