Social EngineeringPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

VUC, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 16, 2024

Filed

Mar 20, 2025

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for VUC, Inc. →2 incidents on file

VUC, Inc. notified the Maryland AG of a data event affecting 2 Maryland residents. Suspicious activity on an employee email account was detected on Oct 16, 2024, following unauthorized access between Oct 10-16, 2024. Names and SSNs were potentially accessed. VUC secured the email tenant, investigated, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d22 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 6 days

discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 155 days

Oct 10, 2024

Begins

Oct 16, 2024

Discovered

Mar 20, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Vermont State AGbd_436ee5c25f8f512c2025-03-19 · +1dVerified

Name: VUC, Inc.
norm: vuc

Name: VUC, Inc.
norm: vuc

Discovered: Oct 16, 2024
Breach occurred: Oct 10, 2024 – Oct 16, 2024
Undetected for: 6 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 19, 2025
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Maryland Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took steps to secure its email tenant
Launched an investigation
Provided access to credit monitoring services for twelve (12) months, through Experian
Providing impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Changes made: Implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Updating administrative and technical safeguards
Providing additional cybersecurity training for our personnel
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 weeks(155 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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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Vermont State AGMar 19 · first

Maryland State AG+1d · 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-376690.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 20, 2025
Raw hash: d9cb30ae7e6093ba4e3bd3733e76205c84a099ac6e27131b965b17b9a8dac50a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVUC, Inc.

Victim entityVUC, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 16, 2024

Stated responseTook steps to secure its email tenant

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov