HackingStolen CredentialsBECData ExfiltratedTargetedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
Nakawatase & Kaminsky, CPAs, LLP
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Full breach record for Nakawatase & Kaminsky, CPAs, LLP →Nakawatase & Kaminsky, CPAs, LLP reported a cybersecurity incident where an intruder compromised their Lacerte tax system between October 31 and November 8, 2016. The attacker hacked the system, resulting in four fraudulent tax returns being filed. Personal and financial information of clients, including SSNs and bank account numbers, was potentially compromised. The firm engaged Navigant for forensics, notified law enforcement (FBI, Sheriff, IRS, FTB), and provided 12 months of identity protection services.
California clockDiscovered Jan 1, 2017 → Notified Feb 3, 201733d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-66191
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 3, 2017
- Raw hash
- b7f236a05c6d6f4ab6f5b9cf68938f818e097b5137c77991953ffda5c7e9fdb3
Reporting entity
- Name
- Nakawatase & Kaminsky, CPAs, LLPnorm: nakawatase kaminsky cpas
Victim entity
- Name
- Nakawatase & Kaminsky, CPAs, LLPnorm: nakawatase kaminsky cpas
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 1, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 3, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified the San Diego County Sheriff’s DepartmentReferred matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s San Diego field officeNotified the Internal Revenue Service Treasury Inspector GeneralNotified the Franchise Tax Board’s fraud unit
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(33 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 33d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Jan 1, 2017→ Notified: Feb 3, 201733d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.