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HackingProfessional ServicesCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Cherry Bekaert

bd_61e7ed2f3c33cd5e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 15, 2020

Filed

Dec 11, 2020

To disclose

21 weeks

Affected · nationwide

2,8557 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Cherry Bekaert →2 incidents on file

Cherry Bekaert LLP, a commercial entity, reported a data breach affecting 2,855 individuals, including 7 residents of Maine. The breach, which occurred between February 7, 2020, and March 17, 2020, was discovered on July 15, 2020. The incident was categorized as an external system breach (hacking), where threat actors gained access to names and financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers along with their security codes or PINs. Affected individuals were notified in writing on December 11, 2020, and offered credit monitoring and data restoration services.

Maine clockDiscovered Jul 15, 2020 → Filed with AG Dec 11, 2020149d ✗ ME AG >90d21 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 159 days
discovery → filing · 21 weeks / 149 days

Feb 7, 2020

Begins

Jul 15, 2020

Discovered

Dec 11, 2020

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Massachusetts State AGDec 11 · first
Maine State AGDec 11 · first · this page
New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Dec 11 (MA), last Dec 16 (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.