Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Bauknight Pietras & Stromer PA

bd_06b1e73d47b0c460 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 14, 2023

Filed

Apr 17, 2024

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

96scope not determined

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Bauknight Pietras & Stromer PA →

Bauknight Pietras & Stromer PA notified South Carolina residents of unauthorized access to an employee's email account on Dec 14, 2023. The incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise. One or more emails contained personal information of affected individuals. 96 individuals in Rhode Island were identified. The firm secured the account, engaged a cybersecurity firm, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 125 days

Dec 14, 2023

Begins

Dec 14, 2023

Discovered

Apr 17, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed96 affectedView incident

Name: Bauknight Pietras & Stromer PA
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Name: Bauknight Pietras & Stromer PA
norm: bauknight pietras stromer
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 14, 2023
Breach occurred: Dec 14, 2023
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 15, 2024
Affected individuals: 96scope not determined
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email account
Commenced an investigation
Engaged a cybersecurity firm to assist
Arranged for one-year membership to Experian’s IdentityWorks credit monitoring service
Changes made: Taking steps further to enhance existing security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(125 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/2024/BauknightPietras%26StromerPA.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 17, 2024
Raw hash: e13d888c40773a61cf3f472737d735811c0b9f2e8038ce69ffb54b0f148fc164

Reporting entityBauknight Pietras & Stromer PA

Victim entityBauknight Pietras & Stromer PA

Incidentdiscovered Dec 14, 2023

Stated responseSecured the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov