HackingProfessional ServicesEducationProfessional ServicesSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Bethel School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 13, 2025

Filed

Feb 28, 2025

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Bethel School District →4 incidents on file

Carruth Compliance Consulting, a third-party administrator for retirement plans, experienced a data security incident on December 21, 2024, where personal information (names and Social Security numbers) of approximately two Maryland residents may have been acquired without authorization. Bethel School District #52, a client of Carruth, notified the Maryland Attorney General and affected individuals on February 28, 2025. Carruth engaged third-party specialists and notified the FBI. Identity protection services are being offered to affected individuals.

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Maryland clock⏱ MD AG >30d7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 23 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Jan 13, 2025

Discovered

Feb 28, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

11 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Carruth Compliance Consulting supply-chain incident (2025) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_3296eaa7bd47a0882025-02-28Verified

Name: Bethel School District
norm: bethel school district
Domain: bethel.k12.or.us

Name: Bethel School District
norm: bethel school district
Domain: bethel.k12.or.us
Industry: Professional ServicesllmEducationllm

Discovered: Jan 13, 2025
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 23 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting

During the incident: Began an investigation to determine what happened and what data was involved
Worked with third-party specialists to investigate the activity
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Worked to identify all current and former employees whose personal information was shared with Carruth
Established a toll-free call center through IDX to answer questions about the incident
Notified the potentially affected individuals
Provided steps individuals can take to protect their personal information
Changes made: Offering complimentary identity protection services including 12 months of credit monitoring, dark web monitoring, $1 million identity fraud loss reimbursement policy, and fully managed identity theft recovery services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 28 · first

Maryland State AGFeb 28 · first · this page

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://oag.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376435.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2025
Raw hash: 37e227eff56e96f86cf338737c274a39ec38a0a2246c0280245fdf8fc8240eb0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBethel School District

Victim entityBethel School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 13, 2025

Stated responseBegan an investigation to determine what happened and what data was involved

ComplianceMD AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov