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Bentley, Bratcher & Associates

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 8, 2025

Filed

Nov 6, 2025

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Bentley, Bratcher & Associates →

Bentley, Bratcher & Associates notified consumers of a network security incident discovered on September 8, 2025. An unauthorized third party may have accessed personal information, including first and last names. The firm engaged forensic specialists, secured its environment, and is offering 12 months of credit monitoring and fraud assistance. No evidence of misuse was found.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday8 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Sep 8, 2025

Discovered

Nov 6, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_f277d3541c1768262025-11-06Verified
Texas State AGbd_1840ffdcf523fc152025-11-07 · +1dCandidate

Name: Bentley, Bratcher & Associates
norm: bentley bratcher associates

Name: Bentley, Bratcher & Associates
norm: bentley bratcher associates
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 8, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 6, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Engaged third-party forensic specialists to assist the firm with securing the environment and investigating the extent of the unauthorized activity
Confirming the security of our network environment
Offering free access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing proactive fraud assistance
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our technical safeguards to prevent a similar incident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGNov 6 · first

Vermont State AGNov 6 · first · this page

Texas State AG+1d

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-11-06-bentley-bratcher-associates-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 6, 2025
Raw hash: 41286780e760172f70c7a652a25726771b916371e697449f2669e38bb6ead2f0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBentley, Bratcher & Associates

Victim entityBentley, Bratcher & Associates

Incidentdiscovered Sep 8, 2025

Stated responseEngaged third-party forensic specialists to assist the firm with securing the environment and investigating the extent of the unauthorized activity

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov