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Social EngineeringBECCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Catholic Diocese of Cleveland

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 14, 2024

Filed

Apr 22, 2024

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected · nationwide

9,8591 in this filing

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Catholic Diocese of Cleveland →2 incidents on file

The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland reported a business email compromise that occurred between December 14, 2023, and January 12, 2024. The breach was discovered on March 14, 2024. The incident resulted in the unauthorized acquisition of names and Social Security numbers. The organization offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through Experian to affected individuals.

Maine clockDiscovered Mar 14, 2024 → Filed with AG Apr 22, 202439d ⏱ ME AG >30d6 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 91 days
discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 39 days

Dec 14, 2023

Begins

Mar 14, 2024

Discovered

Apr 22, 2024

Filed

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 79d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGApr 22 · first
Maine State AGApr 22 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+4d
Indiana State AG+7d
Vermont State AG+7d
Massachusetts State AG+10d
Maine State AG+79d
Vermont State AG+79d

Pattern: first filing Apr 22 (MT), last Jul 10 (VT) — a 79-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.