DisclosureLens
HackingEducationEducationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

Springfield Public Schools

bd_b52c613430da7ccb · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 13, 2020

Filed

Dec 8, 2020

To disclose

25 days

Affected · nationwide

1,00013 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Springfield Public Schools →3 incidents on file

Springfield Public Schools, an educational institution, reported a data breach affecting 13 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred on October 8, 2020, and was discovered on November 13, 2020, involved an external system hack. Affected data included names and financial account numbers with access credentials. The school offered 24 months of credit monitoring services through IDX to those affected.

Maine clockDiscovered Nov 13, 2020 → Filed with AG Dec 8, 202025d ✓ ME AG ≤30d25 days 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 · 36 days
discovery → filing · 25 days

Oct 8, 2020

Begins

Nov 13, 2020

Discovered

Dec 8, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGDec 3 · first
Massachusetts State AG+1d
Maine State AG+5d · this page
New Hampshire State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Dec 3 (IN), last Dec 10 (NH) — a 7-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.