HackingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
H.N.R. Clark, Inc.
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Full breach record for H.N.R. Clark, Inc. →H.N.R. Clark, Inc. notified California AG that its email account was compromised by an unauthorized third party in Sept-Oct 2020, leading to fraudulent filing of ~52 client tax returns. Exposed data included names, addresses, SSNs, and taxpayer info. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, enabled MFA, upgraded firewalls, and offered 24 months of identity theft protection to affected individuals.
California clockDiscovered Oct 13, 2020 → Notified Dec 10, 202058d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 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.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_df65505eacdea205Montana State AGfiled 2020-12-10Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-197018
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 10, 2020
- Raw hash
- 8292afbf1219be391878f5178c7c8fefb75636bf2f4871549eef71830da78ed5
Reporting entity
- Name
- H.N.R. Clark, Inc.norm: hnr clark
Victim entity
- Name
- H.N.R. Clark, Inc.norm: hnr clark
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 13, 2020
- Materiality determined
- Dec 10, 2020
- Notification sent
- Dec 10, 2020
- Affected individuals
- 52
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Third-Party / Supply Chain
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Filed breach notification with California Office of the Attorney General
- Third party
- via Lacerte Intuit
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 58d
- 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: Oct 13, 2020→ Notified: Dec 10, 202058d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.