HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedFinancial accountFinancial credentialsMedium

ELO CPAs & Advisors

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 10, 2024

Filed

Jan 18, 2024

To disclose

8 days

Affected · nationwide

15,1674 in this filing

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for ELO CPAs & Advisors →

ELO CPAs & Advisors, a financial services firm, experienced an unauthorized access incident that was discovered on January 10, 2024. The breach, which occurred on March 24, 2023, affected 4 Maine residents and a total of 15,167 individuals. The compromised information included names in combination with financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers and their security codes. The company provided written notification to affected individuals on January 18, 2024, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring services through Transunion.

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Maine clockDiscovered Jan 10, 2024 → Filed with AG Jan 18, 20248d ✓ ME AG ≤30d8 days discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 292 days

discovery → filing · 8 days

Mar 24, 2023

Begins

Jan 10, 2024

Discovered

Jan 18, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_18c76991d1ca09122024-01-18Verified
Montana State AGbd_8fe0a58363be30142024-01-18Verified by operator
Massachusetts State AGbd_be57bbd5f9fa0ff12024-01-18Verified
Vermont State AGbd_c1e094ad196792692024-01-18Verified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_53b2e0bd012923742024-01-23 · +5dVerified

Name: ELO CPAs & Advisors
norm: elo cpas advisors

Name: ELO CPAs & Advisors
norm: elo cpas advisors
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 10, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 24, 2023
Undetected for: 292 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 18, 2024
Affected individuals: 15,167state + nationwide
Data types: Financial accountFinancial credentials
Data elements: Financial account number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access

Changes made: Offered 12 months of credit monitoring services through Transunion.
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 days(8 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: ME AG ≤30d · 8d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
Maine
Discovered: Jan 10, 2024
→ Filed with AG: Jan 18, 2024
8d 30 days ME AG ≤30d

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
Maine	Discovered: Jan 10, 2024 → Filed with AG: Jan 18, 2024	8d	30 days	ME AG ≤30d

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Indiana State AGJan 18 · first

Montana State AGJan 18 · first

Massachusetts State AGJan 18 · first

Vermont State AGJan 18 · first

Maine State AGJan 18 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jan 18 (IN), last Jan 23 (NH) — a 5-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.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/8152919a-e1d0-4b07-9536-616228107e6b.shtml
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 18, 2024
Raw hash: 6d3029336ef530b78db912dd0587ca9c51d63c2c67bb607eb7db15d76d1be1a3

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityELO CPAs & Advisors

Victim entityELO CPAs & Advisors

Incidentdiscovered Jan 10, 2024

Stated responseOffered 12 months of credit monitoring services through Transunion.

ComplianceME AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.maine.gov