AccidentalGovernmentGovernmentMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 20, 2024

Filed

Jan 29, 2025

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County →

Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County experienced a privacy incident on December 20, 2024, when an employee erroneously sent one resident's completed certification packet, containing names, dates of birth, and social security numbers, to 75 other applicants. The organization is contacting recipients to request deletion and offering two years of identity theft protection to the affected individual.

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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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 40 days

Dec 20, 2024

Begins

Dec 20, 2024

Discovered

Jan 29, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County
norm: housing opportunities commission of montgomery county
Domain: hocmc.org

Name: Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County
norm: housing opportunities commission of montgomery county
Domain: hocmc.org
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Dec 20, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 20, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Contacting each recipient of your information to request deletion of the email
Offering two years of identity theft protection through Aura
Changes made: Required employee(s) involved to take security training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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.

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-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 entityHousing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County

Victim entityHousing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County

Incidentdiscovered Dec 20, 2024

Stated responseContacting each recipient of your information to request deletion of the email

ComplianceMD AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov