HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Florence-Darlington Technical College

bd_f3c0936055f96826 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 18, 2021

Filed

Mar 25, 2021

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

1,250state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Florence-Darlington Technical College →2 incidents on file

Florence-Darlington Technical College notified affected individuals on March 25, 2021, of a data breach where a third party gained unauthorized access to HR documents between Jan 19 and Feb 18, 2021. The incident involved PII (names). FDTC took systems offline, engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and provided one year of credit monitoring via Kroll.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due5 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 30 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 35 days

Jan 19, 2021

Begins

Feb 18, 2021

Discovered

Mar 25, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,250 affectedView incident

Name: Florence-Darlington Technical College
norm: florence darlington technical college

Name: Florence-Darlington Technical College
norm: florence darlington technical college
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Feb 18, 2021
Breach occurred: Jan 19, 2021 – Feb 18, 2021
Undetected for: 30 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 25, 2021
Affected individuals: 1,250state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took our systems offline
Retained a forensics firm to investigate the nature and scope of the incident
Resetting FDTC user passwords
Secured the services of Kroll to provide credit monitoring and identity theft services
Changes made: Reviewed existing security policies
Implemented additional measures, including advanced endpoint monitoring
Continue with this live monitoring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(35 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

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/2021/FlorenceDarlingtonTechnicalCollege.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 25, 2021
Raw hash: 7f0eaa882c6a4e51a6e74b24c1f5dce9ec5ab053276428d78b6c6ef2d27fa798

Reporting entityFlorence-Darlington Technical College

Victim entityFlorence-Darlington Technical College

Incidentdiscovered Feb 18, 2021

Stated responseTook our systems offline

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov