MalwareGovernmentGovernmentRansomwareData EncryptedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Municipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 19, 2024

Filed

Feb 25, 2025

To disclose

36 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Municipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa →

City of Cedar Falls, Iowa notified Maryland AG of a June 2024 ransomware incident. One Maryland resident's PII (name, DOB, SSN, DL, health info) was accessed. City restored from backups and enhanced security (MFA, patching, firewall updates). Notification sent Feb 2025 with credit monitoring.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d36 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 36 weeks / 251 days

Jun 19, 2024

Discovered

Feb 25, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Iowa State AGbd_a6fda0844b5de36b2025-02-25Candidate
Nebraska State AGbd_22f75bb6dce61de12025-02-19 · +6dVerified

Name: Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP
norm: wilson elser moskowitz edelman dicker
Domain: wilsonelser.com

Name: Municipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa
norm: municipal gas utility of the city of cedar falls iowa
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Jun 19, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 19, 2025
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Engaged legal counsel and cybersecurity professionals to conduct a forensic investigation
Securely restored its network from backups
Mailed individual notification letters
Offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services
Changes made: Changed all passwords and updated its password policy
Implemented an automated patching tool
Updated its firewall configurations
Conducted an external penetration test
Conducted an external vulnerability scan
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 36 weeks(251 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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Nebraska State AGFeb 19 · first

Iowa State AG+6d

Maryland State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 19 (NE), last Feb 25 (MD) — a 6-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-376415.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 25, 2025
Raw hash: 3dfdc2fd572a14b88b24592f87f7c46cbed72ce6f1c50e005b50e3a296ac6d8c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP

Victim entityMunicipal Gas Utility of the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa

Incidentdiscovered Jun 19, 2024

Stated responseEngaged legal counsel and cybersecurity professionals to conduct a forensic investigation

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov