Social EngineeringGovernmentGovernmentPhishingTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Worcester County, Maryland

bd_19711312ba0f996b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 11, 2022

Filed

Apr 28, 2022

To disclose

17 days

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Worcester County, Maryland →

Worcester County, Maryland, notified individuals of a phishing incident where an unauthorized party accessed an employee email account between Nov 10-20, 2020. The breach was discovered on April 11, 2022. Personal information (name) was accessed. No evidence of misuse was found. The County offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 517 days

discovery → filing · 17 days

Nov 10, 2020

Begins

Apr 11, 2022

Discovered

Apr 28, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_b6e4f849b240176c2022-04-27 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_2da953101a2871562022-04-26 · +2dCandidate

Name: Worcester County, Maryland
norm: worcester county maryland

Name: Worcester County, Maryland
norm: worcester county maryland
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Apr 11, 2022
Breach occurred: Nov 10, 2020 – Nov 20, 2020
Undetected for: 517 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the account
Commenced a prompt and thorough investigation
Worked very closely with external cybersecurity professionals
Offering a one-year membership in Experian IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Changes made: Continually evaluate and modify our practices to enhance the security and privacy of your information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Maine State AGApr 26 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Montana State AG+2d · this page

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/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-326.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 28, 2022
Raw hash: 2b259388eeee84b67e9e3953aaae32eed996f77cf2b2e98e44c43b71c8758dcc

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWorcester County, Maryland

Victim entityWorcester County, Maryland

Incidentdiscovered Apr 11, 2022

Stated responseSecured the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov