Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Benjamin Associates LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 1, 2024

Filed

Feb 14, 2025

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Benjamin Associates LLC →

Benjamin & Associates, PC notified clients of a fraudulent tax filing incident involving 2022 tax returns. The attacker used stolen name, SSN, and financial account information to redirect funds. The firm reported the incident to the IRS, state authorities, and law enforcement, reset credentials, and conducted a forensic investigation confirming no unauthorized access to their own systems.

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Maryland clock⏱ MD AG >30d11 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 · 1065 days

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 75 days

Jan 1, 2022

Begins

Dec 1, 2024

Discovered

Feb 14, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

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

Name: Benjamin Associates LLC
norm: benjamin associates

Name: Benjamin Associates LLC
norm: benjamin associates
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 1, 2024
Breach occurred: Jan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022
Undetected for: 1,065 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 14, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Reported matter to the IRSNotified state tax authoritiesNotified local and federal law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reported matter to the IRS and state tax authorities
Reset credentials for tax filing accounts
Notified local and federal law enforcement
Conducted forensic investigation
Changes made: Working to identify how this could have happened and how to better protect clients going forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(75 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MD AG >30d
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.

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.maryland.gov/resources-info/SBN%20Documents/2025/ITU-376358.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 14, 2025
Raw hash: d80428077f256ca09536e899e8c82df3c00a97c88d2f81d8c362d096f172721c

Reporting entityBenjamin Associates LLC

Victim entityBenjamin Associates LLC

Incidentdiscovered Dec 1, 2024

Stated responseReported matter to the IRS and state tax authorities

ComplianceMD AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.maryland.gov