Social EngineeringEducationEducationPhishingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Toledo Public Schools

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 8, 2020

Filed

Dec 18, 2020

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Toledo Public Schools →

Toledo Public Schools notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a September 8, 2020 cyberattack initiated by a phishing email. The incident resulted in the unauthorized disclosure of student and employee PII, including SSNs, driver's license numbers, and bank account details. Three New Hampshire residents were identified as affected. TPS engaged the FBI and forensic investigators, took systems offline, and provided credit monitoring services.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >90d14 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

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 101 days

Sep 8, 2020

Discovered

Dec 18, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by maze about this victim predates this filing by 101 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitemazebd_b6a6fa1b7f9ac0cc2020-09-08 · +101dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_3558660ce38deb1a2020-12-18Verified
Maine State AGbd_169eb168e655af892020-12-15 · +3dVerified
Maine State AGbd_63ebda663911d83c2020-12-15 · +3dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_cf3884401154e7c92020-12-15 · +3dVerified by operator

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 4d gap

Montana State AGbd_b59972043481565b2020-12-14 · +4dVerified

Name: TAFT STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP
norm: taft stettinius hollister

Name: Toledo Public Schools
norm: toledo public schools
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 8, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 14, 2020
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Engaged a forensic investigation firm
Took systems offline
Implemented end point monitoring systems
Conducted other analysis to ensure systems were secure before bringing data and limited systems back on line
Provided a preliminary update to students and employees of these developments via email and on the TPS website
Providing notice to individuals and authorities
Providing notice to the credit bureaus
Changes made: Address the root cause of the incident
Improve its information security practices to better protect against a recurrence of this type of incident in the future
Providing notice to the credit bureaus
Providing complimentary identity theft and credit monitoring services to our past and present employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(101 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: Leak >90d
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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGDec 14 · first

Maine State AG+1d

Indiana State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+4d

New Hampshire State AG+4d · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/toledo-public-schools-20201218.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 18, 2020
Raw hash: 33e12d9ad92fb68b98a2b86b93bf545853774ad97c1d9b4f57dfc67d42ebd0bb

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTAFT STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP

Victim entityToledo Public Schools

Incidentdiscovered Sep 8, 2020

Stated responseContacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation

ComplianceLeak >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov