HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMinorMediumContained

Rudd & Company, PLLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 5, 2017

Filed

Mar 22, 2017

To disclose

17 days

Affected

26state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Rudd & Company, PLLC →

Rudd & Company, PLLC disclosed a March 5, 2017 cyberattack resulting in unauthorized access to client data. Affected data included names, addresses, birth dates, SSNs, and financial account information for both adults and minors. The firm notified the IC3 and IRS, engaged forensic scans, and offered Equifax identity monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 17 days

Mar 5, 2017

Discovered

Mar 22, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

15 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed26 affectedView incident

Name: Rudd & Company, PLLC
norm: rudd

Name: Rudd & Company, PLLC
norm: rudd
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 5, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 26state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMinor
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)Notified the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Commenced an investigation to determine the scope of this incident and identify those affected
Worked with information technology team to conduct a thorough scan of computer information systems
Filed a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center
Notified the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of this incident
Arranged for Equifax Personal Solutions to help protect personal information at no cost
Provided instructions for enrollment in Equifax Child Identity Monitoring
Provided instructions for enrollment in Equifax Credit Watch Silver identity theft protection
Changes made: Reviewing systems and making improvements to minimize chances of this happening again
Assessing and modifying privacy and data security policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 days(17 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Rudd-Company.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 22, 2017
Raw hash: c28c9eeaa9f5d9499d6b5850a1bd5d23a9276700bf378e943a9663ff940cc249

Reporting entityRudd & Company, PLLC

Victim entityRudd & Company, PLLC

Incidentdiscovered Mar 5, 2017

Stated responseCommenced an investigation to determine the scope of this incident and identify those affected

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov