HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

School District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 3, 2025

Filed

Sep 2, 2025

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

64%

School District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties notified individuals of a data security incident discovered on June 3, 2025. An external unauthorized individual accessed the network and took files containing personal information including names, SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial account data. The District engaged cybersecurity experts, enhanced security measures, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and fraud assistance.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday13 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

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 91 days

Jun 3, 2025

Discovered

Sep 2, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by interlock about this victim predates this filing by 69 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Siteinterlockbd_0114b40927dd64572025-06-24 · +70dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_a60809c6d9840e292025-09-02Verified by operator
South Carolina State AGbd_5b524b62ca4f7b552025-09-03 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_3a3e2413d556ce502025-08-29 · +4dVerified
Nebraska State AGbd_d7b5f2161da039db2025-08-29 · +4dVerified by operator

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 89d gap

Pressinterlockbd_d3edcdf75cb2f6bf2025-06-05 · +89dCandidate

Name: School District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties
norm: school district five of lexington richland counties
Domain: lexrich5.org

Name: School District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties
norm: school district five of lexington richland counties
Domain: lexrich5.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jun 3, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 29, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged independent cybersecurity experts to assist with investigating and remediating our network
Undertaken a comprehensive review of those files
Providing access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing proactive fraud assistance
Changes made: Implemented measures to enhance security and minimize the risk of a similar incident occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(91 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bdayLeak >30d
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 · 6 filings · 5 states

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PressJun 5 · first

Indiana State AG+85d

Nebraska State AG+85d

Maine State AG+89d

Vermont State AG+89d · this page

South Carolina State AG+90d

Pattern: first filing Jun 5, last Sep 3 (SC) — a 90-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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-09-02-school-district-five-lexington-richland-counties-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 2, 2025
Raw hash: 3c5e8fa2b37dfc28b6371cd9ff5ad0ab3380ad0e4ad9923ea4e845e4c2ade1b9

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySchool District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties

Victim entitySchool District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties

Incidentdiscovered Jun 3, 2025

Stated responseEngaged independent cybersecurity experts to assist with investigating and remediating our network

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov