MalwareRansomwareData EncryptedData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICEMPLOYMENTMediumContained
Kline & Specter P.C.
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Full breach record for Kline & Specter P.C. →Kline & Specter, P.C. experienced a ransomware attack on March 13, 2023, which was discovered on the same day. Attackers disabled portions of the network and may have copied personal data, including Social Security numbers, for AD vendors and former employees. The firm is offering 24 months of identity monitoring through Kroll and has notified the IRS. No legal case data is believed to have been exfiltrated.
California clockDiscovered Mar 13, 2023 → Notified Apr 27, 202345d ✓ CA 60-day OK10 weeks discovery → filing
This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_88719babdf3bf76eNew Hampshire State AGfiled 2023-05-17(7d gap)Verified
- bd_982e2607e7692e0eMontana State AGfiled 2023-05-16(8d gap)Verified
- bd_610954579b60c83fSouth Carolina State AGfiled 2023-04-10(44d gap)Candidate
- bd_bb3ef13145daedc5New Hampshire State AGfiled 2023-04-10(44d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-567172
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- May 24, 2023
- Raw hash
- c9189831b5a95cc4934ca0cb2ccae35ca5cff15497972e325ee462fccb5c6fa2
Reporting entity
- Name
- Kline & Specter P.C.norm: kline specter
- Domain
- klinespecter.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Kline & Specter P.C.norm: kline specter
- Domain
- klinespecter.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 13, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 27, 2023
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified IRS of the Incident
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(72 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 45d
- 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: Mar 13, 2023→ Notified: Apr 27, 202345d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.