UnknownCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTIDENTITY_BASICMediumActive
Stephen F. McFadden CPA
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Full breach record for Stephen F. McFadden CPA →Stephen F. McFadden CPA notified clients of a potential security incident in late April 2021 after receiving an IRS alert that a tax return had already been filed for a client. The firm engaged forensic investigators, who had not identified signs of data access or exfiltration at the time of notification. Affected data may include names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and bank account numbers. The investigation was ongoing, and the firm provided identity theft protection services.
California clockDiscovered Apr 30, 2021 → Notified Jun 17, 202148d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-542117
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 22, 2021
- Raw hash
- d4cc8489b39aaf10a9df7934b9174de7a360a0181c8c743ee8cf7069f9113be1
Reporting entity
- Name
- Stephen F. McFadden CPAnorm: stephen f mcfadden cpa
Victim entity
- Name
- Stephen F. McFadden CPAnorm: stephen f mcfadden cpa
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 30, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jun 17, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- Regulator citations
- Notified the IRS
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(53 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 48d
- 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: Apr 30, 2021→ Notified: Jun 17, 202148d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.