MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Wilmington Friends School

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 29, 2020

Filed

Dec 7, 2020

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Wilmington Friends School →

Wilmington Friends School notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data event involving its third-party vendor, Blackbaud, Inc. Blackbaud experienced an attempted ransomware incident in May 2020, resulting in data exfiltration before the threat actor was locked out on May 20, 2020. The incident affected approximately one New Hampshire resident, exposing name and tax identification number. WFS notified the AG on November 30, 2020, and provided 24 months of credit monitoring via CyberScout to the affected individual.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 151 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 69 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Sep 29, 2020

Discovered

Dec 7, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 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 (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_562c870c4048b6612020-11-30 · +7dVerified
Maine State AGbd_6f3eaa1ad7a595142020-11-30 · +7dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_9394df4efa1a2e232020-11-30 · +7dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_dfd1f158118b6afc2020-11-30 · +7dVerified

Name: Wilmington Friends School
norm: wilmington friends school

Name: Wilmington Friends School
norm: wilmington friends school
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 29, 2020
Breach occurred: May 1, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 151 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 30, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Ransomware
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

During the incident: Worked with forensic investigators to determine the nature and scope of the incident
Commenced an investigation to determine what, if any, sensitive WFS data was potentially involved
Began providing written notice of this incident to potentially affected individuals
Notifying relevant regulatory authorities of this event
Providing potentially impacted individuals with complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services for 24 months through CyberScout
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: 10 weeks(69 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGNov 30 · first

Maine State AGNov 30 · first

Indiana State AGNov 30 · first

Delaware State AGNov 30 · first

New Hampshire State AG+7d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 30 (MA), last Dec 7 (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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/wilmington-friends-school-20201207.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 7, 2020
Raw hash: 5e216725de9f1ce53b90fdc03c535381e7aa90aad4348d56d1c5af5516ac47bb

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWilmington Friends School

Victim entityWilmington Friends School

Incidentdiscovered Sep 29, 2020

Stated responseWorked with forensic investigators to determine the nature and scope of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov