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Ives Sultan & Spike CPAs

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2020

Filed

Sep 16, 2021

To disclose

50 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Ives Sultan & Spike CPAs

Ives Sultan & Spike CPAs notified Montana residents of a business email compromise. Unauthorized access to an employee's email account occurred starting May 2020 and was discovered in October 2020. Compromised data included names, SSNs, driver's licenses, and financial account info. The firm engaged forensic investigators and offered one year of credit monitoring via TransUnion.

Incident timeline

undetected · 153 days
discovery → filing · 50 weeks / 350 days

May 1, 2020

Begins

Oct 1, 2020

Discovered

Sep 16, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+31 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 5d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGSep 16 · first
Maine State AGSep 16 · first
Maine State AGSep 16 · first
Indiana State AGSep 16 · first
Montana State AGSep 16 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 16 (MA), last Sep 21 (NH) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.