HackingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumActive
Heard, McElroy, & Vestal
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Full breach record for Heard, McElroy, & Vestal →Heard, McElroy, & Vestal LLC (HMV), a law firm, notified clients of a data breach discovered on Feb 13, 2023. An unknown actor accessed client information stored on a third-party software program. Affected data included names, DOBs, SSNs, and financial account numbers. HMV notified the FBI, IRS, and State Tax Administrators, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring via Experian IdentityWorks.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday34 weeks 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.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_5f5491f5f2c04888Montana State AGfiled 2023-10-10Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-10-10-heard-mcelroy-vestal-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 10, 2023
- Raw hash
- c9c7edde5c1fb10697b96acff00d8ace59ac82cc315fb723ebc641f4167e5fc3
Reporting entity
- Name
- Heard, McElroy, & Vestalnorm: heard mcelroy vestal
- Industry
- professional_services
Victim entity
- Name
- Heard, McElroy, & Vestalnorm: heard mcelroy vestal
- Industry
- professional_services
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 13, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 11, 2023
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Third-Party / Supply Chain
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Notified the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)Notified State Tax Administrators
- Initial access
- supply_chain
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 34 weeks(239 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 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.