HackingOtherStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Sandy Spring Museum

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 16, 2025

Filed

Feb 3, 2025

To disclose

18 days

Affected

23state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Sandy Spring Museum →2 incidents on file

Sandy Spring Museum notified Maryland AG of a data security incident discovered Jan 16, 2025. An unauthorized individual gained access to systems. Affected data included names, addresses, DOBs, and SSNs of 23 Maryland residents. Museum engaged forensic experts, reset passwords, reformatted desktops, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Maryland clock✓ MD AG ≤30d18 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 days

Jan 16, 2025

Discovered

Feb 3, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Vermont State AGbd_f05da4c09585db8c2025-03-03 · +28dVerified

Name: Sandy Spring Museum
norm: sandy spring museum

Name: Sandy Spring Museum
norm: sandy spring museum
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Jan 16, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 3, 2025
Affected individuals: 23state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Maryland Office of the Attorney General Identity Theft Unit
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disconnected affected systems
Engaged independent computer forensic experts
Changed passwords
Reformatted desktops
Implemented additional restrictions on accessing the network
Notified employees
Provided credit monitoring out of an abundance of caution
Changes made: Changed passwords
Reformatted desktops
Implemented additional restrictions on accessing the network
Offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through IDX
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 days(18 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG ≤30d
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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Maryland State AGFeb 3 · first · this page

Vermont State AG+28d

Pattern: first filing Feb 3 (MD), last Mar 3 (VT) — a 28-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-376290.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 3, 2025
Raw hash: 8fbc604d629d2c0caeabdb24f98c4f861c161306399ce7f7ef293e7021bc17a9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySandy Spring Museum

Victim entitySandy Spring Museum

Incidentdiscovered Jan 16, 2025

Stated responseDisconnected affected systems

ComplianceMD AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov