HackingEducationProfessional ServicesEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentPHIMediumContained

Sweet Home School District 55

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 21, 2024

Filed

Feb 28, 2025

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Sweet Home School District 55 →2 incidents on file

Sweet Home School District notified Vermont residents of a data breach involving third-party vendor Carruth Compliance Consulting. Unauthorized access occurred on December 21, 2024, potentially exposing names, SSNs, financial account info, and limited medical billing/tax data for employees. The district engaged investigators, notified the FBI, and is offering credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday10 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 69 days

Dec 21, 2024

Begins

Dec 21, 2024

Discovered

Feb 28, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

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: Sweet Home School District 55
norm: sweet home school district 55
Domain: sweethome.k12.or.us

Name: Sweet Home School District 55
norm: sweet home school district 55
Domain: sweethome.k12.or.us
Industry: EducationllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 21, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 21, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 28, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentPHI
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Third party: via Carruth Compliance Consulting

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: 10 weeks(69 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-sweet-home-school-district-55-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: 52e5d6b216cff3aea027eabfdf7ab9111ed5c8acd8834349cc8b9b73c5127220

Reporting entitySweet Home School District 55

Victim entitySweet Home School District 55

Incidentdiscovered Dec 21, 2024

Stated responseBegan investigating and sought information from Carruth about the Incident

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov