HackingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
SMITH GAMBRELL & RUSSELL LLP
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Full breach record for SMITH GAMBRELL & RUSSELL LLP →Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP experienced unauthorized access to its IT systems between July 19 and July 28, 2021. The firm discovered the incident on August 9, 2021. Documents containing personal information (names and potentially other data) of clients, primarily related to Aaron's, LLC, were exfiltrated. The firm engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, deployed endpoint monitoring, and offered 24 months of identity theft protection via IDX. No misuse of data was indicated.
California clockDiscovered Aug 9, 2021 → Notified Dec 13, 2022491d ✗ CA 60-day late19 months discovery → filing
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_37ca2b6de1bd12f4Vermont State AGfiled 2023-01-27(33d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-563742
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 1, 2023
- Raw hash
- 622dabd2cedc8827216bd19ab42cfde9cd4fe923ed84cb1690c3a85f114164d5
Reporting entity
- Name
- SMITH GAMBRELL & RUSSELL LLPnorm: smith gambrell russell
- Domain
- sgrlaw.com
Victim entity
- Name
- SMITH GAMBRELL & RUSSELL LLPnorm: smith gambrell russell
- Domain
- sgrlaw.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 9, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Dec 13, 2022
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Contacted law enforcement
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 19 months(569 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 491d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Aug 9, 2021→ Notified: Dec 13, 2022491d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.