HackingOtherCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

The Episcopal Church, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society

bd_5bcee5fc74437a1b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 28, 2024

Filed

Feb 5, 2025

To disclose

40 weeks

Affected

37state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%

The Episcopal Church, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society notified the Maryland Attorney General of a data breach affecting 37 Maryland residents. Unauthorized access occurred between March 25 and April 27, 2024. Affected data included names, SSNs, driver's licenses, financial account numbers, and medical/health insurance information. The Church engaged forensic specialists, notified law enforcement, changed passwords, and offered credit monitoring.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d40 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 34 days

discovery → filing · 40 weeks / 283 days

Mar 25, 2024

Begins

Apr 28, 2024

Discovered

Feb 5, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+33 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_605e266749a7eba72025-02-05Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_a20b51c2f9d250b92025-02-05Verified
Vermont State AGbd_c6d052c680ceb7272025-02-05Candidate
Nebraska State AGbd_592ced184d4b232f2025-02-04 · +1dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 16d gap

Indiana State AGbd_e7da2d90ee0399892025-02-04 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_d3a899306503e1702025-02-21 · +16dVerified

Name: Cipriani & Werner
norm: cipriani werner
Domain: c-wlaw.com

Name: The Episcopal Church, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
norm: the episcopal church
Domain: episcopalchurch.org
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Apr 28, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 25, 2024 – Apr 27, 2024
Undetected for: 34 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Feb 5, 2025
Notification sent: Feb 4, 2025
Affected individuals: 37state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Maryland Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Conducted an investigation
Notified law enforcement
Changed network passwords
Reviewed its policies and procedures related to data protection
Worked with third-party data review specialists to review the contents of the information
Changes made: Offering all individuals complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 40 weeks(283 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 · 7 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Nebraska State AGFeb 4 · first

Indiana State AGFeb 4 · first

Maine State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+1d

Vermont State AG+1d

Maryland State AG+1d · this page

Montana State AG+17d

Pattern: first filing Feb 4 (NE), last Feb 21 (MT) — a 17-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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-376328.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 5, 2025
Raw hash: 2e4173fa1aa431c205f58deec2be326288538c1cc898ca295774888d4538cba7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCipriani & Werner

Victim entityThe Episcopal Church, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society

Incidentdiscovered Apr 28, 2024

Stated responseConducted an investigation

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov