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Optima Tax Relief

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 15, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

221state residents only

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Optima Tax Relief →4 incidents on file

Optima Tax Relief, LLC reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2025-08-15. 221 Massachusetts residents were affected.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >30d

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 15, 2025

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by chaos about this victim predates this filing by 69 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitechaosbd_4874d7e034f4c6c62025-06-06 · +69dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_39c154fb85316aa52025-08-15Verified
Indiana State AGbd_5b9401b4574966fa2025-08-15Verified
California State AGbd_927b5d2155022b912025-08-15Verified
Nebraska State AGbd_babcc562990897b22025-08-15Verified by operator

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 95d gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_f444935c9c21934f2025-08-15Verified by operator
Vermont State AGbd_62aaea630cfa14722025-10-20 · +66dVerified by operator
New Hampshire State AGbd_3a3100a8186bd9fc2025-11-18 · +95dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_69a180df6f948f5b2025-11-18 · +95dVerified by operator

Name: Optima Tax Relief
norm: optima tax relief
Domain: optimataxrelief.com

Name: Optima Tax Relief
norm: optima tax relief
Domain: optimataxrelief.com
Industry: Financial Servicesregulator portal

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 221state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountPCI
Data elements: Social Security numberFinancial account numberPayment card number
Stated not affected: Medical informationDriver's licence number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: Leak >30dMA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 7 states

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Maine State AGAug 15 · first

Indiana State AGAug 15 · first

California State AGAug 15 · first

Nebraska State AGAug 15 · first

New Hampshire State AGAug 15 · first

Massachusetts State AGAug 15 · first · this page

Vermont State AG+66d

New Hampshire State AG+95d

California State AG+95d

Pattern: first filing Aug 15 (ME), last Nov 18 (CA) — a 95-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.

Source URL: https://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2025/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 15, 2025
Raw hash: 864d75f2dfc7391db15b70d7a88124100585c182ef422a6e31883ff58857ce87

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityOptima Tax Relief

Victim entityOptima Tax Relief

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceLeak >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov