Whitefish Community School

Whitefish School District suffered a data breach incident after one of its employees fell for a social engineering scam.

As a result, the attacker got access to an employee’s computer containing various data types including name, address, and Social Security Number.

The School offered 12 months of credit monitoring to all 1663 Montanas affected by the incident.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/whitefish-school-district-notifies-1663-after-employee-fell-for-social-engineering-scam/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/whitefish-community-school

"id": "whi155913522",
"linkid": "whitefish-community-school",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "03/2022",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 1663,
                        'industry': 'Education',
                        'location': 'Montana',
                        'name': 'Whitefish School District',
                        'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Social Engineering',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 1663,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Name',
                                              'Address',
                                              'Social Security Number']},
 'description': 'Whitefish School District suffered a data breach incident '
                'after one of its employees fell for a social engineering '
                'scam. As a result, the attacker got access to an employee’s '
                'computer containing various data types including name, '
                'address, and Social Security Number. The School offered 12 '
                'months of credit monitoring to all 1663 Montanas affected by '
                'the incident.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Name', 'Address', 'Social Security Number']},
 'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Social Engineering'},
 'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': 'Human Error'},
 'references': [{'source': 'Cyber Incident Description'}],
 'response': {'recovery_measures': ['Offered 12 months of credit monitoring']},
 'title': 'Data Breach at Whitefish School District',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Human Error'}