PhysicalEducationEducationTheftOpportunisticCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Helena Public Schools

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 28, 2020

Filed

Dec 4, 2020

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

10state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Helena Public Schools →

Helena Public Schools notified current and former after-school program employees that a USB drive containing timesheets with names and Social Security numbers was stolen during a burglary at Lincoln Elementary School on September 25-27, 2020. The incident was discovered on September 28, 2020. The organization contacted law enforcement, conducted an internal investigation, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 67 days

Sep 25, 2020

Begins

Sep 28, 2020

Discovered

Dec 4, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed10 affectedView incident

Name: Helena Public Schools
norm: helena public schools

Name: Helena Public Schools
norm: helena public schools
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Sep 28, 2020
Breach occurred: Sep 25, 2020 – Sep 27, 2020
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 30, 2020
Affected individuals: 10state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notifying state regulators

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement
Conducted an internal investigation
Notifying potentially affected individuals
Providing access to 12 months of Credit and Identity Monitoring services through IDX
Notifying state regulators
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(67 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/helenaSamp.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 4, 2020
Raw hash: 7633a3645241e1cc8fbf451b9507b94eb763fbd77616e745fb55adb3bbc8bcee

Reporting entityHelena Public Schools

Victim entityHelena Public Schools

Incidentdiscovered Sep 28, 2020

Stated responseContacted law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov