HackingMisconfigurationDelayed DiscoveryTargetedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Meepos & Company
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Full breach record for Meepos & Company →Meepos & Company reported a data breach affecting client tax information due to a misconfiguration of two-factor password authentication. Unauthorized access occurred between Feb 24 and May 19, 2017. Affected data included names, addresses, SSNs, and bank account details. Meepos engaged forensic investigators, quarantined systems, reset passwords, and notified the IRS and FBI. Affected individuals were offered 24 months of credit monitoring.
California clockDiscovered May 19, 2017 → Notified Jul 3, 201745d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 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.
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/sb24-100020
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 30, 2017
- Raw hash
- aa7324b8df6bdb2b7cec9fa33a960b91f97bd72e6ef90fde72e8e9a7051d0c17
Reporting entity
- Name
- Meepos & Companynorm: meepos
Victim entity
- Name
- Meepos & Companynorm: meepos
Incident
- Discovered
- May 19, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 3, 2017
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Reported incident to IRSReported incident to state tax agenciesReported incident to FBINotifying certain state Attorneys General
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 45d
- 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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: May 19, 2017→ Notified: Jul 3, 201745d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.