HackingStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedRansom DemandedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Morgan & Associates
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Full breach record for Morgan & Associates →Morgan & Associates CPAs, PC disclosed a data breach affecting client tax files. A business partner's account was compromised, granting unauthorized access to tax preparation software from Jan 7 to Sep 18, 2024. The attacker accessed personal information and attempted to file fraudulent tax returns. Morgan & Associates engaged forensic professionals, enhanced MFA, and offered credit monitoring.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday11 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-12-02-morgan-associates-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 2, 2024
- Raw hash
- 80f4ab784273b86650585d195205274b54337d80a4ea13e13010cfd63932c20b
Reporting entity
- Name
- Morgan & Associatesnorm: morgan associates
- Domain
- morganscpas.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Morgan & Associatesnorm: morgan associates
- Domain
- morganscpas.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 18, 2024
- Materiality determined
- Dec 2, 2024
- Notification sent
- Dec 2, 2024
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Third-Party / Supply Chain
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- notifying the Internal Revenue Service and state tax authoritiesreported this Incident to relevant government agencies
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 11 weeks(75 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bday
- 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.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.