HackingStolen CredentialsBECData ExfiltratedRansom DemandedTargetedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumActive
M.L. Lichtenberg & Associates, LLC
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Full breach record for M.L. Lichtenberg & Associates, LLC →M.L. Lichtenberg & Associates, LLC, a tax preparation firm, disclosed a security incident discovered on August 11, 2023. Unauthorized actors accessed systems and fraudulently filed client tax returns, redirecting refunds to fraudulent accounts. The incident involved client names and financial data. The firm engaged cybersecurity specialists and notified the IRS, state authorities, and federal law enforcement. Affected individuals were offered credit monitoring.
Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday21 days discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-09-01-ml-lichtenberg-associates-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 1, 2023
- Raw hash
- 221dee53e90ac74bd2cb4c6fa3964621ac054c45076e152e5a7b72a3f222f0fb
Reporting entity
- Name
- M.L. Lichtenberg & Associates, LLCnorm: ml lichtenberg associates
Victim entity
- Name
- M.L. Lichtenberg & Associates, LLCnorm: ml lichtenberg associates
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 11, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 1, 2023
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Corresponding with the IRS and state taxing authoritiesCorresponding with federal law enforcement
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >14 bday
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.