MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData EncryptedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentMediumContained

Pinal County Superintendent's Office

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 25, 2023

Filed

Nov 27, 2023

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Pinal County Superintendent's Office →

Pinal County Superintendent’s Office experienced a ransomware attack on September 25, 2023, locking employees out of its data processing environment. The incident potentially affected the personal information of approximately two New Hampshire residents, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and financial data. PCSO restored data from backups, engaged forensic investigators, and is offering credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 63 days

Sep 25, 2023

Begins

Sep 25, 2023

Discovered

Nov 27, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

South Carolina State AGbd_862e2ba29e59d01f2023-11-27Verified
Vermont State AGbd_00c3355f8c31f3c12023-11-22 · +5dVerified
Maine State AGbd_88d4281f6a2b12222023-11-22 · +5dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_7f192edc85c6bb522023-11-20 · +7dVerified

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Montana State AGbd_ed85dfbd614a54fe2023-11-20 · +7dCandidate

Name: Pinal County Superintendent's Office
norm: pinal county superintendent s office

Name: Pinal County Superintendent's Office
norm: pinal county superintendent s office
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 25, 2023
Breach occurred: Sep 25, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 17, 2023
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Restored its data using available and viable backups
Coordinated closely with state and federal law enforcement agencies to secure its environment
Retained third-party experts, including an IT firm to conduct a thorough forensic investigation
Retained outside counsel to advise on legal obligations
Engaged Cyberscout to provide complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft insurance
Changes made: Eliminating the vulnerability that was used by the unauthorized actor
Implementing additional security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(63 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Massachusetts State AGNov 20 · first

Montana State AGNov 20 · first

Vermont State AG+2d

Maine State AG+2d

South Carolina State AG+7d

New Hampshire State AG+7d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 20 (MA), last Nov 27 (NH) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/pinal-county-superintendents-office-20231127.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 27, 2023
Raw hash: 9300629b2d70254492c6c5070eadbfb04b5162e9347dba2d973b700be8b60e35

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPinal County Superintendent's Office

Victim entityPinal County Superintendent's Office

Incidentdiscovered Sep 25, 2023

Stated responseRestored its data using available and viable backups

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov