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Whittaker & Company

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 2, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Whittaker & Company →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Spacebears on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2025-03-20

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Whittaker & Company CPAs helps closely-held businesses and their owners solve immediate problems and plan for the future. You may be used to dealing with a ‘typical’ or ‘normal’ CPA firm...but that’s not us. We’re not merely accountants, or someone with a CPA license. We too run a family business, so we know the challenges and how it feels. We apply that knowledge and understanding to everything we do with you.The most important story to us is yours. What makes you tick? What frustrates you about the accounting industry, and how can we help you address that? We’re here to share our story with you, and listen to yours.- Database- Financial documents- Personal information of employees and clients https://www.whittakercpas.com/

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 2, 2025

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 6 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 117d gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGJun 27 · first
Nebraska State AGJun 27 · first
Maine State AGJun 27 · first
Massachusetts State AGJun 27 · first
Indiana State AGJun 27 · first

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-25

spacebears

According to ransomware.live, Space Bears is a double-extortion ransomware group that emerged in April 2024, distinguished by a professional "corporate" aesthetic on its leak site, leveraging Phobos RaaS infrastructure and targeting small-to-medium organizations in manufacturing, technology, and healthcare across the US and Europe.

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