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HackingEducationEducationDelayed DiscoveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHigh

Friends Seminary

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Severity

High

Discovered

Oct 5, 2020

Filed

Dec 18, 2020

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected · nationwide

1,2328 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Friends Seminary →3 incidents on file

Friends Seminary, an educational institution, reported an external system breach (hacking) that occurred on May 1, 2020, and was discovered on October 5, 2020. The breach compromised the names and Social Security numbers of 1,232 individuals. The institution began notifying affected individuals on December 18, 2020, and offered them 24 months of identity and credit monitoring services from Epiq.

Maine clockDiscovered Oct 5, 2020 → Filed with AG Dec 18, 202074d ⏱ ME AG >30d11 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 · 157 days
discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 74 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Oct 5, 2020

Discovered

Dec 18, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of BLACKBAUD, INC. supply-chain incident (2020) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGDec 18 · first
Maine State AGDec 18 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+24d

Pattern: first filing Dec 18 (MA), last Jan 11 (NH) — a 24-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.