HackingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
Optima Tax Relief
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Full breach record for Optima Tax Relief →Optima Tax Relief, LLC notified consumers of a data breach where an unauthorized person accessed the network between May 1 and May 6, 2025, downloading files containing personal information. Optima engaged forensic investigators, notified law enforcement, and offered complimentary Kroll identity monitoring services to affected individuals.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday25 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
A leak claim by chaos about this victim predates this filing by 135 days.View originating leak claim
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_3a3100a8186bd9fcNew Hampshire State AGfiled 2025-11-18(29d gap)Verified
- bd_69a180df6f948f5bCalifornia State AGfiled 2025-11-18(29d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-10-20-optima-tax-relief-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 20, 2025
- Raw hash
- b3d3f0523360b5bf83e592e2447130775386d1109a092ad659c18d318a7005fc
Reporting entity
- Name
- Optima Tax Reliefnorm: optima tax relief
- Domain
- optimataxrelief.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Optima Tax Reliefnorm: optima tax relief
- Domain
- optimataxrelief.com
Incident
- Discovered
- May 1, 2025
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 20, 2025
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- notified law enforcement
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 25 weeks(172 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bdayLeak >90d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.