MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)LowContained

University of Rhode Island Foundation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Sep 2, 2020

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

500state residents only

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for University of Rhode Island Foundation →

University of Rhode Island Foundation (URIF) notified Washington AG of a ransomware incident affecting Blackbaud, its third-party donor data host. Data exfiltrated between April 18 and May 17, 2020, impacting 500 Washington residents with names and dates of birth. URIF discovered the incident on July 16, 2020, upon notification from Blackbaud. URIF is mailing notices to affected individuals.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 89 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Apr 18, 2020

Begins

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Sep 2, 2020

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed500 affectedView incident

Name: University of Rhode Island Foundation
norm: university of rhode island
Industry: Non-Profit/Charity

Name: University of Rhode Island Foundation
norm: university of rhode island
Industry: Non-Profit/Charity
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Breach occurred: Apr 18, 2020 – May 17, 2020
Undetected for: 89 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 2, 2020
Affected individuals: 500state-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: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Attorney General Consumer Protection Division
Third party: via Blackbaud, Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Conducted a comprehensive search for any personal information stored in the Blackbaud system
Formally notifying the potentially impacted Washington residents
Reviewing its relationship with Blackbaud and the technical controls in place for securing URIF’s data in the Blackbaud systems
Changes made: Reviewing its relationship with Blackbaud and the technical controls in place for securing URIF’s data in the Blackbaud systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA 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.

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/BreachM10281.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 2, 2020
Raw hash: 983ce128208bd4346407ccd2cb4e2125c3e18b8385c2c4689ef81c9aed25f148

Reporting entityUniversity of Rhode Island Foundation

Victim entityUniversity of Rhode Island Foundation

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseConducted a comprehensive search for any personal information stored in the Blackbaud system

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com