MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

James Irwin Charter Schools

bd_a5b1449b22f56f3c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 9, 2020

Filed

Jul 29, 2020

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for James Irwin Charter Schools →

James Irwin Charter Schools notified Montana residents of a ransomware incident on April 9, 2020, where servers were inaccessible due to unauthorized encryption. The organization restored systems from backups by April 16, 2020, and engaged forensic review. Personal information (names, potentially SSNs) may have been accessed. One year of identity monitoring via TransUnion was offered.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 111 days

Apr 9, 2020

Begins

Apr 9, 2020

Discovered

Jul 29, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: James Irwin Charter Schools
norm: james irwin charter schools

Name: James Irwin Charter Schools
norm: james irwin charter schools
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 9, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 9, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 14, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Engaged a firm to review all available data within the network for the presence of personal information
Restored network environment from system backups
Offered one year of identity monitoring without cost
Secured TransUnion to provide identity monitoring
Implemented additional technical security measures
Changes made: Implemented additional technical security measures designed to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(111 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/James-Irwin-Charter-Schools-Consumer-ltr.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 29, 2020
Raw hash: 52f019042fb77c3226537cc1b0a75fb059240926e083eafb468a6f63ae59faf1

Reporting entityJames Irwin Charter Schools

Victim entityJames Irwin Charter Schools

Incidentdiscovered Apr 9, 2020

Stated responseEngaged a firm to review all available data within the network for the presence of personal information

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov