MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareCryptolockerData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

Ziprick & Cramer, LLP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 25, 2015

Filed

Mar 2, 2015

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Ziprick & Cramer, LLP →

Ziprick & Cramer, LLP, a law firm, experienced a ransomware attack on January 25, 2015, involving a Cryptolocker-type virus that encrypted data on a workstation and server. The firm did not pay the ransom. While no evidence of data exfiltration was found, the firm notified clients and offered one year of credit monitoring. Affected data may include SSNs, driver's license numbers, financial account numbers, and medical information.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 25, 2015 → Notified Feb 27, 201533d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 36 days

Jan 25, 2015

Begins

Jan 25, 2015

Discovered

Mar 2, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

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

Name: Ziprick & Cramer, LLP
norm: ziprick cramer

Name: Ziprick & Cramer, LLP
norm: ziprick cramer
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 25, 2015
Breach occurred: Jan 25, 2015
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 27, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported the cyberattack to the FBI

During the incident: Removed the infected workstation
Contacted antivirus and malware protection companies’ experts
Reported the cyberattack to the FBI
Engaged a computer specialist to assess the attack and determine what information was encrypted
Changes made: Implementing even more layers of protection and safeguards for the computer system
Working to prevent such cyberattacks in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(36 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 33d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Jan 25, 2015
→ Notified: Feb 27, 2015
33d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 25, 2015 → Notified: Feb 27, 2015	33d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-48594
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 2, 2015
Raw hash: 3b9b34b886e25db870d51e407e90aca18ac4c9d959516fd6f04a552905f6dbf5

Reporting entityZiprick & Cramer, LLP

Victim entityZiprick & Cramer, LLP

Incidentdiscovered Jan 25, 2015

Stated responseRemoved the infected workstation

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov