HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Bender & Company, CPAs, P.C.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 3, 2024

Filed

Feb 7, 2025

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Bender & Company, CPAs, P.C. →

Bender & Company, CPAs, P.C. notified Maryland AG of unauthorized access to an employee email account between June 21 and July 3, 2024. The incident potentially exposed the names, SSNs, and medical diagnosis/treatment info of 4 Maryland residents. Bender engaged forensic specialists, secured systems, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Maryland clock✗ MD AG >90d31 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 12 days

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 219 days

Jun 21, 2024

Begins

Jul 3, 2024

Discovered

Feb 7, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+14 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_a02e69e7c19f87822025-02-07Candidate
Indiana State AGbd_d5a0cc891b6bd5d42025-02-07Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_d6f31a1caf04c4042025-02-10 · +3dVerified

Name: Cipriani
norm: cipriani
Domain: cipriani.com

Name: Bender & Company, CPAs, P.C.
norm: bender company cpas
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 3, 2024
Breach occurred: Jun 21, 2024 – Jul 3, 2024
Undetected for: 12 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 7, 2025
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Maryland Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured its email system and network
Engaged third-party computer specialists to investigate
Conducted comprehensive review of account contents
Sent written notice to impacted Maryland residents
Offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services for twelve months
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(219 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGFeb 7 · first

Indiana State AGFeb 7 · first

Maryland State AGFeb 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376334.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 7, 2025
Raw hash: f8af33ce974f4d6db9f7735b3202b11cc2badab03d186f07d5427d342391fc3a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCipriani

Victim entityBender & Company, CPAs, P.C.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 3, 2024

Stated responseSecured its email system and network

ComplianceMD AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov