HackingProfessional ServicesFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Bregante + Company, LLP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 4, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

72%

Full breach record for Bregante + Company, LLP →2 incidents on file

Bregante + Company LLP, a CPA/tax firm, discovered a potential data security incident while preparing 2019 tax returns that may have exposed client personal information. An unauthorized user could have accessed names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers or Tax IDs, and prior IRS/state tax filing information. The firm engaged a forensic cybersecurity firm, notified the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation Division, and offered 12 months of MyIDCare identity protection services to affected clients.

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Incident timeline

May 4, 2020

Begins

Aug 4, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_a968dfc0d5aac65a2020-08-04Candidate

Name: Bregante + Company, LLP
norm: bregante

Name: Bregante + Company, LLP
norm: bregante
Industry: Professional ServicesllmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: May 4, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 17, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationNotified the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division

During the incident: Launched an investigation and worked with the IRS and our software provider to ascertain what had occurred
Retained an independent digital cybersecurity firm to conduct a forensic investigation of B+Co's network and computer systems
Promptly notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division
Offering identity theft protection services through ID Experts® (MyIDCare) including 12 months of credit and CyberScan monitoring, dark web monitoring, a $1 million identity fraud loss reimbursement policy, and fully managed id theft recovery services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGAug 4 · first

California State AGAug 4 · first · this page

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.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-192722
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 4, 2020
Raw hash: 1a7ff626c4bbd8d4114a120756c08cee745850fd2482f63ab34668698bb5f303

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBregante + Company, LLP

Victim entityBregante + Company, LLP

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseLaunched an investigation and worked with the IRS and our software provider to ascertain what had occurred

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov