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Kerkering Barberio & Co

bd_766b709d5a683ac7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 1, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Kerkering Barberio & Co2 incidents on file

Kerkering, Barberio & Company, a CPA firm, notified Massachusetts residents of a data security incident involving unauthorized access to sensitive personal information. The breach likely involved taxpayer data, including Social Security numbers and financial account details, resulting from a phishing attack targeting business email. The firm disconnected compromised email access, reset credentials, and provided 24 months of free credit monitoring and fraud assistance via Cyberscout/TransUnion. No specific date of discovery or total affected count was provided in the notification letter.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Mar 1, 2026

Filed

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

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.