Did the Blackbaud data breach leave your information vulnerable?
Nonprofits such as Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, university foundations, and over 40 other organizations were affected by a data breach, putting your information in danger. If you made a charitable donation to an organization in the past, please contact Keller Rohrback’s data privacy litigation team at (800) 776-6044 or [email protected] for a no-cost consultation.
Nonprofits and their donors want their efforts to go toward the greater good, not put them at risk. Contact us for help.
On February 7, 2020, Blackbaud—a technology provider used by nonprofits and other social good organizations—was breached by a hacker. The breach went undetected until May 14, when there was a suspicious log-in on an internal server. Despite becoming aware of the attack in May, Blackbaud did not notify users of its platform about the hack until July 16. While the cybercriminals were able to remove a copy of a subset of data from Blackbaud’s self-hosted environment, the organizations who fell victim to the attack remain unsure as to what data was stolen.
Several of the organizations notified of the cyberattack are large, prominent ones, including:
- Planned Parenthood
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Human Rights Watch
- Northwest Immigration Rights Project
- George W. Bush Presidential Center
- Seattle Children’s Hospital
- Central Washington University (CWU Foundation)
- The University of Puget Sound
- Western Washington University (WWU Foundation)
- Evergreen State College Foundation
- Washington State University (WSU Foundation)
- French American School of Puget Sound
- Fred Hutch
- Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County
- Auburn Valley Humane Society
- Wenatchee Valley Humane Society
- The Nature Conservancy
- Saint Luke’s Foundation
- Virginia Mason
- YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties
- March of Dimes
- American Heart Association
- Northern Light Health Foundation
- World Vision
- Save the Children
- Partners in Health
- Ambrose University
- Auburn University Foundation
- Bentley University
- Des Moines University
- Emerson College
- Louisiana Tech University Foundation
- Middlebury College
- New College of Florida
- Rhode Island School of Design
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland Foundation
- Texas Tech Foundation
- University of Dayton
- University of North Carolina System
- University of North Florida
- Ventura College Foundation
- West Virginia University Foundation
- Direct Relief
- ShelterBox USA
Donor data was part of the breach, meaning that millions of donors nationwide are affected. If your organization or an organization to which you have donated uses Blackbaud’s software, please contact us at (800) 776-6044 or [email protected] for a no-cost consultation.
About Keller Rohrback L.L.P.
With offices in Seattle, Phoenix, New York, Oakland, Santa Barbara, and Missoula, Keller Rohrback serves as lead and co-lead counsel in class actions throughout the country, including in the Facebook Consumer Privacy litigation. Our data privacy team is a pioneer in representing consumers, employees, and companies who have had their information breached, and we have a long track-record of success in this area, including the Ninth Circuit case Krottner v. Starbucks, which established that the theft of a laptop containing employees’ personally identifiable information sufficed to confer Article III standing on plaintiffs.
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