HackingEducationProfessional ServicesEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHealth (basic)MediumContained

Northwest Regional Education Service District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 13, 2025

Filed

Mar 12, 2025

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Northwest Regional Education Service District →

Northwest Regional Education Service District notified Vermont residents that their personal information may have been acquired without authorization from Carruth Compliance Consulting, a third-party administrative services provider. The incident occurred on December 21, 2024. Affected data may include names, Social Security numbers, financial account information, driver's license numbers, W-2 information, and medical billing information. The organization engaged third-party specialists, notified the FBI, and is offering credit monitoring services.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday8 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 23 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 58 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Jan 13, 2025

Discovered

Mar 12, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 7 filings 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 (6) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_03c9166d39c41f732025-03-12Verified by operator
Oregon State AGbd_1e9b6b97d4d6e9b02025-03-12Candidate
Montana State AGbd_b21a4e05eeb13e902025-03-12Verified by operator
Maryland State AGbd_b25c36c6190b9c6d2025-03-12Verified by operator

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New Hampshire State AGbd_bfa4b3b321d5394b2025-03-12Verified
Maine State AGbd_1250b06e857f33b92025-03-13 · +1dVerified

Name: Northwest Regional Education Service District
norm: northwest regional education service district
Domain: nwresd.org

Name: Northwest Regional Education Service District
norm: northwest regional education service district
Domain: nwresd.org
Industry: EducationllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 13, 2025
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 23 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 12, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting

During the incident: Began investigating and sought information from Carruth about the Incident
Worked to identify all current and former employees whose personal information was shared with Carruth
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
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 · 7 filings · 7 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 12 · first

Oregon State AGMar 12 · first

Montana State AGMar 12 · first

Maryland State AGMar 12 · first

New Hampshire State AGMar 12 · first

Vermont State AGMar 12 · first · this page

Maine 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-03-12-northwest-regional-education-service-district-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 12, 2025
Raw hash: f6f3201b7145264bec70a585f772e3cfa41eb6090bd2f5d4993ffd3742738315

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorthwest Regional Education Service District

Victim entityNorthwest Regional Education Service District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 13, 2025

Stated responseBegan investigating and sought information from Carruth about the Incident

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov