HackingCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
Michael T. Blevins, Inc.
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Full breach record for Michael T. Blevins, Inc. →Michael T. Blevins, Inc., a mail handling and tax preparation service, experienced unauthorized access to its computer network in late March 2017. An attacker accessed client tax data, including names, SSNs, DOBs, and bank account routing numbers. The incident was contained, and the company engaged forensic experts, notified law enforcement and the IRS, and offered identity protection services to affected clients.
California clockDiscovered Mar 26, 2017 → Notified May 19, 201754d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-69002
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- May 20, 2017
- Raw hash
- bb30a5fcd624f88cee675894b211095fa6d6ea8482fbb61321af7f87f9a2cd1d
Reporting entity
- Name
- Michael T. Blevins, Inc.norm: michael t blevins
Victim entity
- Name
- Michael T. Blevins, Inc.norm: michael t blevins
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 26, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- May 19, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Contacted law enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 54d
- 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 26, 2017→ Notified: May 19, 201754d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.