HackingEducationEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Bethel School District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 13, 2025

Filed

Feb 28, 2025

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Bethel School District →4 incidents on file

Bethel School District #52 notified employees of a data security incident involving third-party vendor Carruth Compliance Consulting. Unauthorized access occurred on December 21, 2024, and was discovered on January 13, 2025. Affected data includes names and potentially Social Security numbers of current and former employees. The district engaged investigators, notified the FBI, and is offering credit monitoring services.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday7 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 23 days

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Jan 13, 2025

Discovered

Feb 28, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Part of Carruth Compliance Consulting supply-chain incident (2025) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

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

Name: Bethel School District
norm: bethel school district
Domain: bethel.k12.or.us

Name: Bethel School District
norm: bethel school district
Domain: bethel.k12.or.us
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 13, 2025
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 23 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Began investigating and sought information from Carruth about the Incident
Worked to identify all current and former employees whose personal information was shared with Carruth
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(46 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-02-28-bethel-school-district-52-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2025
Raw hash: f75615011062d90594423c56c1f6a40c8303bdd2237ec53e262b668453316c09

Reporting entityBethel School District

Victim entityBethel School District

Incidentdiscovered Jan 13, 2025

Stated responseBegan investigating and sought information from Carruth about the Incident

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov