MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainGovernment IDFinancial accountPIIMediumContained

Anthony & Dodge PC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 21, 2025

Filed

May 1, 2025

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Anthony & Dodge PC →

Anthony & Dodge PC experienced a data security event on February 21, 2025, when an employee opened a malicious video conference invitation that downloaded malware. The attacker accessed client tax preparation files in CCH Access and filed four fraudulent tax returns. The firm contained the incident by disabling the affected computer and access, notified the IRS and FBI, and offered credit monitoring to five affected New Hampshire residents.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 69 days

Feb 21, 2025

Begins

Feb 21, 2025

Discovered

May 1, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_dccc72ad0896db012025-05-01Verified
Vermont State AGbd_e7a8205c7e2d32fc2025-04-30 · +1dCandidate

Name: Anthony & Dodge PC
norm: anthony dodge

Name: Anthony & Dodge PC
norm: anthony dodge
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 21, 2025
Breach occurred: Feb 21, 2025 – Feb 22, 2025
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 30, 2025
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountPII
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.001 Spearphishing AttachmentT1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported the Event to federal law enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”)Filed a report with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (“FBI”)
Initial access: phishing_attachment

During the incident: Disabled both the computer and the perpetrator’s access to CCH AccessTM
Retained outside privacy counsel
Engaged a third-party experts to conduct the digital forensic investigation
Contacted the cybersecurity division of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to implement safeguards
Provided the IRS the information necessary to activate the IRS’s advanced fraud detection and prevention system, called Return Integrity Compliance Services (“RICS”)
Filed a report with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (“FBI”)
Offering access to credit monitoring and identify restoration services for months at no cost to you, through Experian
Changes made: Reviewing its existing policies and procedures regarding cyber security
Evaluating additional technical safeguards to further secure its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(69 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Vermont State AGApr 30 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

New Hampshire 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/anthony-dodge-20250501.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 1, 2025
Raw hash: be8f15f4bf4eebd242ab332d344162a30657ef53a152458fe1fe4de969ce570d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAnthony & Dodge PC

Victim entityAnthony & Dodge PC

Incidentdiscovered Feb 21, 2025

Stated responseDisabled both the computer and the perpetrator’s access to CCH AccessTM

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov