Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Foard & Company, PA

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 23, 2025

Filed

Mar 4, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Foard & Company, PA →

Foard & Company, PA, a tax preparation firm, notified Nebraska residents of a data incident where unauthorized parties filed fraudulent tax returns using clients' names and Social Security numbers. The breach was discovered on September 23, 2025, when the firm received rejection notices for client filings. The firm engaged forensic professionals, notified the IRS, and offered credit monitoring. Affected data includes names and SSNs.

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Incident timeline

Sep 23, 2025

Discovered

Mar 4, 2026

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_b690385ee82aaa9e2026-03-04Candidate

Name: Foard & Company, PA
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Name: Foard & Company, PA
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Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 23, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 4, 2026
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS")
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Changed passwords
Enhancing the implementation of multifactor authentication
Notifying the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS")
Engaging data security and privacy professionals to assist
Changes made: Added technical security protections on top of our existing safeguards by following the guidance of data security and privacy professionals
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 4 · first

Nebraska State AGMar 4 · first · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

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

Press / market report

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

State AG / regulator filingThis record

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

SEC 8-K / victim statement

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

Source URL: https://nebraska.gov/ago/data-breach/documents/305152a8-5ca8-43ba-8292-b2ee1655d426.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 4, 2026
Raw hash: 22bb8cbbc64922e974e4fb49983861ffa0eef736a9cb49b2c3d114f37e7632d1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFoard & Company, PA

Victim entityFoard & Company, PA

Incidentdiscovered Sep 23, 2025

Stated responseChanged passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancenebraska.gov