HackingEducationEducationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Muscogee County School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 26, 2024

Filed

Aug 25, 2025

To disclose

35 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Muscogee County School District →

Muscogee County School District (MCSD) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a security incident where an unknown third party accessed MCSD's network between December 12 and December 26, 2024. The breach potentially exposed PII, including names and Social Security numbers, of four New Hampshire residents. MCSD secured its network, engaged cybersecurity experts, notified law enforcement, and sent notification letters on August 14, 2025, offering one year of credit monitoring.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d35 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 · 14 days

discovery → filing · 35 weeks / 242 days

Dec 12, 2024

Begins

Dec 26, 2024

Discovered

Aug 25, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+26 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by safepay about this victim predates this filing by 242 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitesafepaybd_70254b6bbbfa6c702024-12-26 · +242dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_16d60edf0ce3073f2025-08-20 · +5dVerified
Nebraska State AGbd_b796c0310fa2a7dc2025-08-14 · +11dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_f6bed38f94c99cfd2025-02-11 · +195dVerified by operator
Indiana State AGbd_ee2898ac2d8f08e42025-02-07 · +199dCandidate

Name: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, A Professional Corporation
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Name: Muscogee County School District
norm: muscogee county school district
Domain: muscogee.k12.ga.us
Industry: education
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 26, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 12, 2024 – Dec 26, 2024
Undetected for: 14 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 14, 2025
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Secured its network
Launched an investigation
Working with outside cybersecurity experts
Notified law enforcement
Sent notification letters to four residents
Offered one year of credit monitoring services
Changes made: Supplemented existing security measures to further strengthen its network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 35 weeks(242 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >180d
Discovery-date grounding: 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGFeb 7 · first

Massachusetts State AG+4d

Nebraska State AG+188d

Maine State AG+194d

New Hampshire State AG+199d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 7 (IN), last Aug 25 (NH) — a 199-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/muscogee-county-school-district-20250825.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 25, 2025
Raw hash: 3b32e436d35faa1cc45abed6033e911b376022b3eba6a82ea59582c20db27b00

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBaker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, A Professional Corporation

Victim entityMuscogee County School District

Incidentdiscovered Dec 26, 2024

Stated responseSecured its network

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov