Social EngineeringPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
Marks & Associates, P.C.
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Full breach record for Marks & Associates, P.C. →Marks & Associates, a California-based professional services firm, disclosed a data breach occurring in November 2018 involving a social engineering scam. Unauthorized parties accessed an employee's email account and network portions. Potentially exposed data included names and Social Security Numbers. The firm engaged third-party IT consultants, replaced servers, and provided credit monitoring services to affected individuals.
California clockDiscovered Aug 13, 2019 → Notified Aug 13, 20190d ✓ CA 60-day OK≤1 day discovery → filing
⚠ notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.
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/sb24-149761
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 14, 2019
- Raw hash
- 8c22678c6db4ad357b7ff424d9839ce1111737e4b7ec71da3a131c04fafa7e68
Reporting entity
- Name
- Marks & Associates, P.C.norm: marks associates
- Domain
- marksandassociatespc.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Marks & Associates, P.C.norm: marks associates
- Domain
- marksandassociatespc.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 13, 2019
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Aug 13, 2019
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- ≤1 day(1 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 0d
- Discovery-date grounding
- notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Aug 13, 2019→ Notified: Aug 13, 20190d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.