HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHIMediumActive

Eric Buchanan & Associates, PLLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 13, 2024

Filed

Mar 7, 2025

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Eric Buchanan & Associates, PLLC →2 incidents on file

Eric Buchanan & Associates, PLLC notified the Maryland Attorney General of a security incident where an unauthorized third party accessed systems from September 4, 2024, to November 13, 2024. The breach affected 4 Maryland residents, exposing names, DOBs, SSNs, financial account info, and health/medical data. Eric Buchanan engaged forensic counsel, reset passwords, rebuilt servers, notified law enforcement, and provided credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d16 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 70 days

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 114 days

Sep 4, 2024

Begins

Nov 13, 2024

Discovered

Mar 7, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_31fab5f4433b63e02025-03-07Verified
Maine State AGbd_3f3d04643dbf5e162025-03-07Candidate
Nebraska State AGbd_e893ddcd5dc8918b2025-03-07Verified

Name: Eric Buchanan & Associates, PLLC
norm: eric buchanan associates

Name: Eric Buchanan & Associates, PLLC
norm: eric buchanan associates
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 13, 2024
Breach occurred: Sep 4, 2024 – Nov 13, 2024
Undetected for: 70 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 7, 2025
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHI
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Engaged Shook, Hardy & Bacon as outside counsel
Engaged a leading digital-forensics firm to assist in the investigation
Engaged a data-review firm to determine what personal information was in those files
Started mailing written notice to the affected individuals
Provided a complimentary one-year membership to Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring
Established a toll-free call center
Reset passwords
Rebuilt the affected servers
Adopted additional technical safeguards
Notified law enforcement
Changes made: Reset passwords
Rebuilt the affected servers
Adopted additional technical safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(114 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 · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGMar 7 · first

Maine State AGMar 7 · first

Nebraska State AGMar 7 · first

Maryland State AGMar 7 · first · this page

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-376516.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 7, 2025
Raw hash: 5a32c9d66b377f5a66c9c38f609a2fb189fb2af72d3088ee2b37e491d8ec39cd

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEric Buchanan & Associates, PLLC

Victim entityEric Buchanan & Associates, PLLC

Incidentdiscovered Nov 13, 2024

Stated responseEngaged Shook, Hardy & Bacon as outside counsel

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov