MalwareEducationEducationRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)TargetedIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Tidewater Community College Education Foundation

bd_fb66cd1d6114f655 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 1, 2020

Filed

Sep 17, 2020

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

1,029state residents only

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Tidewater Community College Education Foundation →

Tidewater Community College Education Foundation (TCCEF) notified the Washington AG of a ransomware attack on its third-party cloud provider, Blackbaud. The incident occurred between Feb 7 and May 20, 2020. Blackbaud discovered the attack in May 2020. Data potentially accessed included names, addresses, DOBs, and partial credit card info for 1,029 WA residents. TCCEF notified residents via email.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d20 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 · 84 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 139 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

May 1, 2020

Discovered

Sep 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+13 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,029 affectedView incident

Name: Tidewater Community College Education Foundation
norm: tidewater community college education
Domain: tcc.edu
Industry: Non-Profit/Charity

Name: Tidewater Community College Education Foundation
norm: tidewater community college education
Domain: tcc.edu
Industry: Non-Profit/Charity
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 1, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2020 – May 20, 2020
Undetected for: 84 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 17, 2020
Affected individuals: 1,029state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Data elements: NameDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure 100-199d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Washington Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via Blackbaud
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Engaged independent forensics experts
Notified law enforcement
Confirmed data copy was destroyed
Identified and fixed the vulnerability
Changes made: Reviewed technical safeguards and protocols
Continued to work with Blackbaud to remediate incident and prevent further unauthorized access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(139 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >90d
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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10310.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 17, 2020
Raw hash: f4cc5fdaef577b88ce91456e3b692ce209693352f425ed36772a82aae9deb961

Reporting entityTidewater Community College Education Foundation

Victim entityTidewater Community College Education Foundation

Incidentdiscovered May 1, 2020

Stated responseEngaged independent forensics experts

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com