MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Carroll College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Oct 21, 2020

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

2,166state residents only

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Carroll College →

Carroll College notified WA AG of a third-party ransomware incident involving vendor Blackbaud. Unauthorized access occurred between Feb 7 and May 20, 2020. Discovered July 16, 2020. 2,166 WA residents affected. Data exposed: names and dates of birth.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d14 weeks 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 · 160 days

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 97 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Oct 21, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,166 affectedView incident

Name: Carroll College
norm: carroll college

Name: Carroll College
norm: carroll college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 160 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 21, 2020
Affected individuals: 2,166state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)
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: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the Attorney General Bob Ferguson
Third party: via Blackbaud, Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Commenced an investigation
Working with Blackbaud to learn more about the incident
Identify and notify those individual whose information may have been involved
Providing potentially impacted individuals with the contact details for the national consumer reporting agencies
Changes made: Review its existing policies and procedures regarding its third-party vendors
Working with Blackbaud to evaluate additional measures and safeguards to protect against this type of incident in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 weeks(97 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >90d
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/BreachM10343.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 21, 2020
Raw hash: 2c5081e7dbd0fcca2b9f468c8dd0dfab5d91b1022d1391f9b69d50b4ffa71a04

Reporting entityCarroll College

Victim entityCarroll College

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseCommenced an investigation

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com