HackingDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
Wear, Howell, Strickland, Quinn and Law, CPAs
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Full breach record for Wear, Howell, Strickland, Quinn and Law, CPAs →Wear, Howell, Strickland, Quinn and Law, CPAs notified consumers of a data breach where an unknown actor gained unauthorized access to its network between Feb 11-19, 2025. The incident was discovered on Feb 24, 2025, following an IT outage. Personal information, including names, may have been accessed. The firm engaged forensic experts, notified the FBI, and is offering credit monitoring services.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday32 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.
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
- bd_a6fd495d47968133Montana State AGfiled 2025-10-06Candidate
- bd_bba04de0c1a7a270New Hampshire State AGfiled 2025-10-06Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-10-06-wear-howell-strickland-quinn-and-law-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 6, 2025
- Raw hash
- 85c5d8ea5d68509e68039e595597b4321cb149ebb7ab05bcdbdbf1577fb7d9a7
Reporting entity
- Name
- Wear, Howell, Strickland, Quinn and Law, CPAsnorm: wear howell strickland quinn and law cpas
Victim entity
- Name
- Wear, Howell, Strickland, Quinn and Law, CPAsnorm: wear howell strickland quinn and law cpas
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 24, 2025
- Materiality determined
- Oct 6, 2025
- Notification sent
- Oct 6, 2025
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 32 weeks(224 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bday
- 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.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.