MalwareEducationTechnologyEducationRansomwareRansom DemandedRansom PaidData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedGovernment IDPIIMediumContained

Blackbaud

bd_ed76bd7d19e39811 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 16, 2020

Filed

Nov 6, 2020

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Proctor Academy issued a supplemental notice regarding a ransomware breach at vendor Blackbaud. While initial notifications in July 2020 stated no PII was compromised, Blackbaud later confirmed that a legacy database containing unencrypted Social Security Numbers was accessed. Proctor is offering 24 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 113 days

Jul 16, 2020

Discovered

Nov 6, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: PROCTOR ACADEMY
norm: proctor academy
Domain: proctoracademy.org
Industry: education

Name: Blackbaud
norm: blackbaud
Industry: technology
Industry: EducationllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jul 16, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 15, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Blackbaud working with FBI

During the incident: Negotiated with cybercriminals and paid a ransom
Retained forensic experts
Retained cyber security attorney
Offered Experian identity and credit protection services for 24 months
Monitoring criminal network on the dark web
Changes made: Blackbaud implemented appropriate protections to ensure such an event does not reoccur
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(113 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/proctorSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 6, 2020
Raw hash: d87820fa9a6ed68a90fe0022238ef9dd7bea158b501077ce425c412ae0b8c3f8

Reporting entityPROCTOR ACADEMY

Victim entityBlackbaud

Incidentdiscovered Jul 16, 2020

Stated responseNegotiated with cybercriminals and paid a ransom

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov