HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Salzmann Hughes, P.C.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2024

Filed

Mar 5, 2025

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Salzmann Hughes, P.C. →

Salzmann Hughes, P.C. notified the Maryland Attorney General of a security breach affecting 7 Maryland residents. Between September 25 and October 1, 2024, an unknown party accessed an employee email account without authorization, obtaining names and Social Security numbers. The firm terminated access, engaged cybersecurity specialists, and provided 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d22 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 155 days

Sep 25, 2024

Begins

Oct 1, 2024

Discovered

Mar 5, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed7 affectedView incident

Name: Salzmann Hughes, P.C.
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Name: Salzmann Hughes, P.C.
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Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2024
Breach occurred: Sep 25, 2024 – Oct 1, 2024
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 5, 2025
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1114 Email CollectionT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Terminated access to the email account
Engaged outside cybersecurity specialists to determine the scope of this incident
Changes made: Reviewing its policies and procedures related to data protection
Offering the potentially impacted resident of Maryland complimentary access to 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 weeks(155 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

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://oag.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376509.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 5, 2025
Raw hash: 9c3e15fde3a19f7cc00ed5ad09a8a84d06b36ba1bcda3834d4586de515a93ec1

Reporting entitySalzmann Hughes, P.C.

Victim entitySalzmann Hughes, P.C.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2024

Stated responseTerminated access to the email account

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov