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MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation, Inc.

bd_c8c97bc3e0887fba · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 5, 2020

Filed

Jan 4, 2021

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected · nationwide

5,48926 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation, Inc. reported a ransomware incident involving its vendor, Blackbaud, occurring between May 14 and May 20, 2020. The breach was discovered on December 5, 2020, affecting 5,489 individuals, including 26 Maine residents. Personal information and financial account numbers were compromised. The Foundation provided 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through TransUnion to affected individuals.

Maine clockDiscovered Dec 5, 2020 → Filed with AG Jan 4, 202130d ✓ ME AG ≤30d4 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 · 205 days
discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

May 14, 2020

Begins

Dec 5, 2020

Discovered

Jan 4, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 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 (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGJan 4 · first
Montana State AGJan 4 · first
Maine State AGJan 4 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Jan 4 (IN), last Jan 11 (NH) — a 7-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.