DisclosureLens
HackingFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Special K Tax and Accounting

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 8, 2021

Filed

May 9, 2021

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected · nationwide

973 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Special K Tax and Accounting →

Special K Tax and Accounting reported a data breach affecting 97 individuals, including 3 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred on February 28, 2021, and was discovered on April 8, 2021, involved unauthorized access to an email account containing names and Social Security numbers. The company offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through IDX to those affected.

Maine clockDiscovered Apr 8, 2021 → Filed with AG May 9, 202131d ⏱ ME AG >30d4 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 39 days
discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Feb 28, 2021

Begins

Apr 8, 2021

Discovered

May 9, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGMay 7 · first
Massachusetts State AG+2d
Maine State AG+2d · this page

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.