Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingTargetedCredentialsAuthenticationLowContained

Law Offices of John A. Guthrie

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 17, 2023

Filed

Mar 17, 2023

To disclose

≤1 day

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Law Offices of John A. Guthrie →

Law Offices of John A. Guthrie notified the California AG of a phishing incident where an imposter sent scam emails from compromised law firm addresses on March 17, 2023. The emails contained links to a fake Adobe PDF designed to steal Microsoft login credentials. The firm stopped the attack, notified Adobe, and advised recipients to change passwords if they entered credentials.

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California clockDiscovered Mar 17, 2023 → Notified Mar 18, 20231d ✓ CA 60-day OK≤1 day discovery → filing

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Mar 17, 2023

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Name: Law Offices of John A. Guthrie
norm: law offices of john a guthrie
Domain: johnaguthrielaw.com

Name: Law Offices of John A. Guthrie
norm: law offices of john a guthrie
Domain: johnaguthrielaw.com
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 17, 2023
Breach occurred: Mar 17, 2023 – Mar 17, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 18, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: CredentialsAuthentication
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Stopped the attack
Notified Adobe about the hacker’s PDF on their site
Sent notification emails to affected individuals
Changes made: Instructed recipients to change Microsoft account password if they entered login information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: ≤1 day(0 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 1d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Mar 17, 2023
→ Notified: Mar 18, 2023
1d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Mar 17, 2023 → Notified: Mar 18, 2023	1d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-564515
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 17, 2023
Raw hash: 0d5345b6532e24fef94159989b605e7596a4dd6a36230a27078b228634bdd9b6

Reporting entityLaw Offices of John A. Guthrie

Victim entityLaw Offices of John A. Guthrie

Incidentdiscovered Mar 17, 2023

Stated responseStopped the attack

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov