HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEducationEmploymentMediumContained

Butte County School District No. 111

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 7, 2025

Filed

Jan 10, 2025

To disclose

3 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Butte County School District No. 111 →

Butte County School District 111 (Idaho) notified families and staff on Jan 10, 2025, of a Dec 22, 2024, cybersecurity incident involving third-party vendor PowerSchool. An unauthorized actor used compromised credentials to access student and teacher data (names, addresses, emails, some SSNs). The District disabled remote support, reset passwords, blocked IPs, and reported the incident to state education authorities.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 16 days

discovery → filing · 3 days

Dec 22, 2024

Begins

Jan 7, 2025

Discovered

Jan 10, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

Part of PowerSchool 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: Butte County School District No. 111
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Name: Butte County School District No. 111
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Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 7, 2025
Breach occurred: Dec 22, 2024
Undetected for: 16 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 10, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: reported this incident to the Idaho Counties Risk Management Pool, State Board of Education, and Idaho Department of Education
Third party: via PowerSchool
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disabled the PowerSchool remote support option
Initiated Password resets for all staff and students
Blocked IP addresses from the country where this attack originated
Reported this incident to the Idaho Counties Risk Management Pool, State Board of Education, and Idaho Department of Education
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 3 days(3 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://www.ag.idaho.gov/content/uploads/2025/01/1-10-2025-Butte-County-School-District-No.-111.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 10, 2025
Raw hash: af335cd446647cd0efb5a52553da01f60af953e9352ea8da022b68ad29bb6e25

Reporting entityButte County School District No. 111

Victim entityButte County School District No. 111

Incidentdiscovered Jan 7, 2025

Stated responseDisabled the PowerSchool remote support option

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.ag.idaho.gov