HackingHealthcarePIIPHIHealth (basic)LowContained

Birch Medical

bd_21643f37fa4a20c4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 1, 2024

Filed

Mar 3, 2025

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

51state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Birch Medical →

Birch Medical notified the Maryland Attorney General on February 27, 2025, regarding a data event in September 2024 involving unauthorized access to a folder containing names and medical information of 51 Maryland residents. While the investigation could not confirm actual unauthorized access, Birch Medical provided notices and identity theft guidance to affected individuals out of an abundance of caution.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d26 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 183 days

Sep 1, 2024

Discovered

Mar 3, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_ec4db6754055750b2025-03-03Verified
Montana State AGbd_3d885f4429eec6ef2025-02-27 · +4dCandidate
Vermont State AGbd_50d383c5c1fa63f32025-02-27 · +4dVerified

Name: Birch Medical
norm: birch medical

Name: Birch Medical
norm: birch medical

Discovered: Sep 1, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 27, 2025
Affected individuals: 51state-resident count only
Data types: PIIPHIHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Maryland Attorney GeneralNotified relevant state regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Implemented additional technical and administrative safeguards
Conducted a thorough and detailed review of the folder
Provided written notice to 51 Maryland residents
Provided guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Provided information on how to place fraud alerts and credit freezes
Provided contact details for the national consumer reporting agencies
Provided information on how to obtain a free credit report
Notified relevant state regulators
Notified the three major credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion
Changes made: Working to implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(183 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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGFeb 27 · first

Vermont State AGFeb 27 · first

California State AG+4d

Maryland State AG+4d · 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://oag.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376470.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 3, 2025
Raw hash: 192c2f6234306263dd960d94c1f8d70945c9e51bfc881296f09c0ed2b26b5746

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBirch Medical

Victim entityBirch Medical

Incidentdiscovered Sep 1, 2024

Stated responseImplemented additional technical and administrative safeguards

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov