Sadd Velazquez Higashi Shammaa, LLP
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Full breach record for Sadd Velazquez Higashi Shammaa, LLP →Sadd Velazquez Higashi Shammaa, LLP, a California law firm, reported a data breach involving unauthorized access to its tax program system between May 1 and May 3, 2017. The breach was discovered on June 8, 2017, following suspicious electronic activity. The firm notified the FBI, IRS, Franchise Tax Board, and local law enforcement. Affected data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and financial account information of partners, shareholders, and beneficiaries. The firm provided one year of Equifax Credit Watch Gold and Child Identity Monitoring to affected individuals.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-99016
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 20, 2017
- Raw hash
- 65f7039bae0b26d275037489b5cc2cd95a8e7e95763233e13d721f33a64a00f5
Reporting entity
- Name
- Sadd Velazquez Higashi Shammaa, LLPnorm: sadd velazquez higashi shammaa
Victim entity
- Name
- Sadd Velazquez Higashi Shammaa, LLPnorm: sadd velazquez higashi shammaa
Incident
- Discovered
- Jun 8, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jun 15, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified the IRSNotified the California Franchise Tax BoardNotified local law enforcementNotified the FBI
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 12 days(12 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 7d
- 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: Jun 8, 2017→ Notified: Jun 15, 20177d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.