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

Saint Francis Ministries

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 6, 2020

Filed

Dec 23, 2020

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Saint Francis Ministries →2 incidents on file

Saint Francis Ministries notified the NH AG of a data event involving one NH resident. A third-party vendor, Blackbaud, experienced a ransomware attack in May 2020, resulting in encryption and exfiltration of data. Saint Francis received notification from Blackbaud in October 2020 and identified that names and SSNs of former St. John's employees were potentially accessed. Saint Francis provided one year of credit monitoring to the affected individual.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 158 days

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 78 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Oct 6, 2020

Discovered

Dec 23, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 2 filings 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 (1) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_7ffa3077b874d2472020-12-15 · +8dVerified

Name: Saint Francis Ministries
norm: saint francis ministries

Name: Saint Francis Ministries
norm: saint francis ministries
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Oct 6, 2020
Breach occurred: May 1, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 158 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 15, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General Consumer Protection Bureau
Third party: via Blackbaud Inc.
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Began an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident
Provided written notice of this incident to all affected individuals
Provided access to credit monitoring services for one year, through Epiq, to individuals whose personal information was potentially affected by this incident, at no cost to these individuals
Provided impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures regarding 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: 11 weeks(78 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Indiana State AGDec 15 · first

New Hampshire State AG+8d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 15 (IN), last Dec 23 (NH) — a 8-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/saint-francis-minisries-20201223.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 23, 2020
Raw hash: 149a608e542ae5a45127ac8bae401e71e6fae553f304d3c98a0cc9ae742685f4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySaint Francis Ministries

Victim entitySaint Francis Ministries

Incidentdiscovered Oct 6, 2020

Stated responseBegan an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov