HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsHealth (basic)CredentialsHighContained

The Greenwood School

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Severity

High

Discovered

Feb 15, 2017

Filed

May 2, 2017

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

2,963state residents only

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for The Greenwood School →

Greenwood School District 50 notified employees and families of a data breach in early 2017. Unauthorized access occurred between Jan 19 and Feb 12, 2017, compromising employee email accounts and the iVision payroll portal. Data exposed included names, SSNs, bank info, health insurance info, and W-2/1095 forms. The District hired forensic experts, changed passwords, shut down the payroll portal, and offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due11 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 27 days

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 76 days

Jan 19, 2017

Begins

Feb 15, 2017

Discovered

May 2, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,963 affectedView incident

Name: The Greenwood School
norm: the greenwood school
Domain: greenwood.org

Name: The Greenwood School
norm: the greenwood school
Domain: greenwood.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Feb 15, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 19, 2017 – Feb 12, 2017
Undetected for: 27 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 26, 2017
Affected individuals: 2,963state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsHealth (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notifying certain government regulators about this incident
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Hired an outside computer forensics expert to investigate
Passwords for the affected employee email accounts were changed
IVision was shut down while security modifications were made
Offering you access to 1 year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian
Changes made: Taking additional steps to enhance data security protections to better protect against similar incidents in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(76 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2017/GreenwoodSchoolDistrict50.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 2, 2017
Raw hash: 488bdf034867e57b9e6bb29882c2f7262a41194c4cc40497592d8cb3d5434cfb

Reporting entityThe Greenwood School

Victim entityThe Greenwood School

Incidentdiscovered Feb 15, 2017

Stated responseHired an outside computer forensics expert to investigate

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov