PhysicalTheftOpportunisticCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Ken Waterman, CPA
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Full breach record for Ken Waterman, CPA →Rob Kirby, CPA reported the theft of a password-protected laptop and an unencrypted flash drive from his vehicle in Santa Rosa, CA on December 19, 2014. The devices contained confidential client tax information, including names, addresses, birth dates, and social security numbers. The incident was determined to be opportunistic rather than targeted. The firm reported the theft to the San Francisco Police Department and implemented remediation measures including laptop recovery software and flash drive encryption.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-47844
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 23, 2014
- Raw hash
- a6d89f64bf75d57b90bcd93fdd6ac871764cc5aa0d16a6f2d36f9cdd00e4afa6
Reporting entity
- Name
- Ken Waterman, CPAnorm: ken waterman cpa
Victim entity
- Name
- Ken Waterman, CPAnorm: ken waterman cpa
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 19, 2014
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Issued a security breach notification to the California Attorney General
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 4 days(4 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.