HackingVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICHighContained
Fairfax County Public Schools
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Full breach record for Fairfax County Public Schools →Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia) reported an external system breach (hacking) occurring between August 21, 2020, and September 5, 2020, discovered on September 6, 2020. The incident compromised the personal information of 19,653 individuals, including Social Security Numbers. The organization notified affected individuals in writing on November 9, 2020, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian. 34 Maine residents were specifically affected.
Maine clockDiscovered Sep 6, 2020 → Filed with AG Nov 16, 202071d ⏱ ME AG >30d10 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed19,653 affectedView incident
A leak claim by maze about this victim predates this filing by 66 days.View originating leak claim
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/076be210-042f-4a95-9a94-d121e1aa1600.shtml
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 16, 2020
- Raw hash
- c78d9d70ae1fad20ab23d4596dfed48458b3a8ea7c277eee8462b3352157380c
Reporting entity
- Name
- Fairfax County Public Schoolsnorm: fairfax county public schools
- Domain
- fcps.edu
Victim entity
- Name
- Fairfax County Public Schoolsnorm: fairfax county public schools
- Domain
- fcps.edu
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 6, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Nov 9, 2020
- Affected individuals
- 19,653
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Filed data breach notice with the Maine Office of the Attorney General
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(71 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- ME AG >30d · 71dME resident >60d · 64dLeak >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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status Maine Discovered: Sep 6, 2020→ Filed with AG: Nov 16, 202071d 30 days (soft) ME AG >30d Maine Discovered: Sep 6, 2020→ Notified: Nov 9, 202064d 60 days (analyst band; statutory cap is 30 days) ME resident >60d
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.