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HackingEducationEducationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDCriticalResolved

Georgia Southern University

bd_c85b3a4945e51a3f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Critical

Discovered

Jul 24, 2020

Filed

Nov 13, 2020

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected · nationwide

194,49695 in this filing

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Georgia Southern University →5 incidents on file

Georgia Southern University experienced an external system breach that was discovered on July 24, 2020. The incident, which occurred between February 7, 2020, and May 20, 2020, affected 95 Maine residents. The compromised data included names and Social Security Numbers. Affected individuals were notified on November 13, 2020, and offered one year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Kroll.

Maine clockDiscovered Jul 24, 2020 → Filed with AG Nov 13, 2020112d ✗ ME AG >90d16 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 · 168 days
discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 112 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 24, 2020

Discovered

Nov 13, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 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 (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 35d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGOct 9 · first
Maine State AGOct 9 · first
Indiana State AGOct 9 · first
California State AGOct 9 · first
New Hampshire State AG+4d
Washington State AG+35d
Maine State AG+35d · this page
New Hampshire State AG+38d

Pattern: first filing Oct 9 (MA), last Nov 16 (NH) — a 38-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.