The Maine Office of the Attorney General reported on September 28, 2020, that Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation experienced a data breach due to unauthorized access to systems at its vendor, Blackbaud, from February 7 to May 20, 2020. The breach affected a total of 96 individuals, with information including one Maine resident's name and Social Security number compromised. Pennington offered the affected individual a year of identity theft protection through Experian.
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"type": "Breach",
"date": "2/2020",
"severity": "25",
"impact": "1",
"explanation": "Attack without any consequences"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 96,
'industry': 'Research',
'name': 'Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation',
'type': 'Non-profit Organization'}],
'attack_vector': 'Unauthorized Access',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 96,
'personally_identifiable_information': True,
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Name',
'Social Security number']},
'date_detected': '2020-05-20',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2020-09-28',
'description': 'Unauthorized access to systems at Blackbaud, a vendor of '
'Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation, resulted in a data '
'breach affecting 96 individuals, including one Maine '
"resident's name and Social Security number.",
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Name', 'Social Security number'],
'identity_theft_risk': 'High'},
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2020-09-28',
'source': 'Maine Office of the Attorney General'}],
'response': {'third_party_assistance': ['Experian']},
'title': 'Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}