AccidentalMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County
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Full breach record for Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County →Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County notified Maryland AG that an employee mistakenly emailed a resident's certification packet (containing names, DOBs, SSNs) to 75 other applicants on Dec 20, 2024. HOC contacted recipients for deletion, offered 2 years of Aura identity theft protection, and mandated security training for involved employees.
Maryland clock⏱ MD AG >30d6 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed75 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376260.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jan 29, 2025
- Raw hash
- 7cf5a59735d5d4bdfc50d50aa470b39c5ccc6cd45b6af21a445ef809e4689105
Reporting entity
- Name
- Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery Countynorm: housing opportunities commission of montgomery county
- Domain
- hocmc.org
Victim entity
- Name
- Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery Countynorm: housing opportunities commission of montgomery county
- Domain
- hocmc.org
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 20, 2024
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 75
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1534 Internal Remote Services
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified Maryland Office of the Attorney General
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(40 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- MD AG >30d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.