UnknownFinancial ServicesFinanceGovernment IDFinancial accountHigh

Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 18, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

4,464state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

95%

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Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc. reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2025-07-18. 4,464 Massachusetts residents were affected.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due

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

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Jul 18, 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 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Nebraska State AGbd_c836b651f9aac2f52025-07-18Verified
Indiana State AGbd_d1e2d13404d5545f2025-07-18Verified
Maine State AGbd_f9f3694149facaf32025-07-18Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_d4d8d63f316fcb2e2025-07-21 · +3dVerified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_99bec506284c40072025-05-23 · +56dCandidate

Name: Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc.
norm: accounting tax associates

Name: Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc.
norm: accounting tax associates
Industry: Financial Servicesregulator portal

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,464state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberFinancial account numberDriver's licence number
Stated not affected: Medical informationPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External

Compliance flags: MA 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 · 6 filings · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGMay 23 · first

Nebraska State AG+56d

Indiana State AG+56d

Maine State AG+56d

Massachusetts State AG+56d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+59d

Pattern: first filing May 23 (MA), last Jul 21 (NH) — a 59-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: Jul 18, 2025
Raw hash: 4dc52102b3419610dd784b50b6c11db122fe12b1032ecc671d4348dbf567fffd

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAccounting & Tax Associates, Inc.

Victim entityAccounting & Tax Associates, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov