MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Identity (basic)PIIMediumContained

St. Joseph School

bd_bd6835cbf946835b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Aug 14, 2020

To disclose

29 days

Affected

5,142state residents only

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for St. Joseph School →

St. Joseph School notified WA AG of a ransomware attack on vendor Blackbaud in May 2020. Attackers exfiltrated a backup of donor data including names, DOBs, and donation info. 5,142 WA residents affected. Data destroyed by Blackbaud. Notifications sent Aug 14, 2020 with 1-year credit monitoring.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d29 days discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 76 days

discovery → filing · 29 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Aug 14, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,142 affectedView incident

Name: St. Joseph School
norm: st joseph school

Name: St. Joseph School
norm: st joseph school
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: May 1, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 76 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 14, 2020
Affected individuals: 5,142state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Data elements: NameDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 100-199dexposure 100-199d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington State Attorney General's Office

During the incident: Began notifying Washington State residents via letter and/or email on August 14, 2020
Providing substitute notice due to lack of sufficient contact information
Offering one year of free credit monitoring services to those whose personal information was impacted
Reviewed security protocols and procedures to reduce the risk of this situation arising again
Changes made: Blackbaud accelerated efforts to further harden its environment through enhancements to access management
Network segmentation enhancements
Deployment of additional endpoint monitoring
Network-based platform enhancements
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10239.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 14, 2020
Raw hash: e05040877f18cf7a26ce7e5137c96b7056b2263b12f44279aaa4c8a98ebf0306

Reporting entitySt. Joseph School

Victim entitySt. Joseph School

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseBegan notifying Washington State residents via letter and/or email on August 14, 2020

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com