Social EngineeringOtherPhishingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowContained

Modern Disposal Services, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 17, 2024

Filed

Mar 6, 2025

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Modern Disposal Services, Inc. →

Modern Disposal Services, Inc. reported a cybersecurity incident to the Maryland Attorney General on March 6, 2025. Between October 11 and 17, 2024, an employee's email account was compromised, likely via phishing, resulting in the unauthorized access and download of personal information. The breach affected one Maryland resident, exposing name, medical, and health insurance information. Modern Disposal engaged forensic specialists and a data review vendor, secured the email system, and provided one year of complimentary credit monitoring through Experian to the affected individual.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d20 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 140 days

Oct 11, 2024

Begins

Oct 17, 2024

Discovered

Mar 6, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+12 wks slower

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

Name: Mullen Coughlin LLC
norm: mullen coughlin

Name: Modern Disposal Services, Inc.
norm: modern disposal
Industry: Otherllm

Discovered: Oct 17, 2024
Breach occurred: Oct 11, 2024 – Oct 17, 2024
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Mar 6, 2025
Notification sent: Mar 6, 2025
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email tenant
Initiated an investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists
Engaged a data review vendor to conduct a comprehensive and time-intensive review of the contents of the affected email account
Provided access to credit monitoring services for one (1) year, through Experian, to individuals whose personal information was potentially affected by this incident, at no cost to these individuals
Provided impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Changes made: Working to implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(140 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.

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-376512.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 6, 2025
Raw hash: d073dcdf52673d241246d7d8d57d0db759cef47dc4cde687e803b6b8fe3ee4cb

Reporting entityMullen Coughlin LLC

Victim entityModern Disposal Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 17, 2024

Stated responseSecured the email tenant

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov