AccidentalEducationEducationMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsEducationLowContained

San Francisco Unified School District

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 10, 2019

Filed

May 1, 2019

To disclose

21 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for San Francisco Unified School District →

On April 10, 2019, San Francisco Unified School District staff mistakenly shared an electronic document containing student names, IDs, and default passwords for current and former Buena Vista Horace Mann students with the school community. The data was accessible for approximately two hours. SFUSD reset passwords for all impacted students as a precaution. No unauthorized access was confirmed.

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California clockDiscovered Apr 10, 2019 → Notified Apr 12, 20192d ✓ CA 60-day OK21 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 21 days

Apr 10, 2019

Begins

Apr 10, 2019

Discovered

May 1, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Name: San Francisco Unified School District
norm: san francisco unified school district

Name: San Francisco Unified School District
norm: san francisco unified school district
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Apr 10, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 10, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 12, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)CredentialsEducation
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Contacted the SFUSD Department of Technology for assistance
Changed the passwords of all impacted students
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 2d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Apr 10, 2019
→ Notified: Apr 12, 2019
2d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Apr 10, 2019 → Notified: Apr 12, 2019	2d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-146782
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 1, 2019
Raw hash: 40bb7a67e1940007e2f48f4731c6fed75cdf6715bfba4ca31a1807d018e84faa

Reporting entitySan Francisco Unified School District

Victim entitySan Francisco Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered Apr 10, 2019

Stated responseContacted the SFUSD Department of Technology for assistance

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov