HackingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
Payne and Fears, LLP
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Full breach record for Payne and Fears, LLP →Payne and Fears, LLP experienced an external system breach on March 8, 2021, which was also the date of discovery. The breach affected 234 individuals, compromising their names and Social Security numbers. The firm provided written notification to those affected on April 21, 2021, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian.
Maine clockDiscovered Mar 8, 2021 → Filed with AG Apr 21, 202144d ⏱ ME AG >30d6 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed234 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/f6e57589-279f-4a3b-9534-5ba155bdd456.shtml
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Apr 21, 2021
- Raw hash
- e764f86bae78764fafa79183a4f1a376383a6d9aa0702afe3fed9102aae4964e
Reporting entity
- Name
- Payne and Fears, LLPnorm: payne and fears
Victim entity
- Name
- Payne and Fears, LLPnorm: payne and fears
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 8, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 21, 2021
- Affected individuals
- 234
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- External
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(44 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- ME AG >30d · 44d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status Maine Discovered: Mar 8, 2021→ Filed with AG: Apr 21, 202144d 30 days (soft) ME AG >30d
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.