HackingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedRansom DemandedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHighActive
Bacon & Company, CPAs, LLC
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Full breach record for Bacon & Company, CPAs, LLC →Bacon & Company CPAs, LLC notified New Hampshire AG on March 16, 2017, of a February 20, 2017 data breach affecting 1,157 individuals, including 8 NH residents. Unauthorized actors hacked the firm's systems, accessing names, SSNs, and financial account info to fraudulently file tax returns. The firm engaged law enforcement (FBI/IC3, RI State Police, Warwick PD, IRS, RI AG) and offered 12 months of Equifax Credit Watch Silver identity theft protection.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,157 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/bacon-company-20170316.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 16, 2017
- Raw hash
- bb47ee4e62f7531251832371362a7eec965ca9c9493691a158438c262e3ce4fc
Reporting entity
- Name
- Bacon & Company, CPAs, LLCnorm: bacon company cpas
- Domain
- baconcpas.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Bacon & Company, CPAs, LLCnorm: bacon company cpas
- Domain
- baconcpas.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 20, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,157
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- filed a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Centernotified the Rhode Island State Policefiled a police report with the Warwick Police Departmentnotified the Rhode Island Division of Taxation and the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS")notified the Rhode Island Attorney General
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 24 days(24 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.