MalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareExtortion DemandRansom DemandedRansom PaidData EncryptedTargetedGovernment IDFinancial accountPIIIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Roy & Rurak

bd_d532c02ba1a78b07 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 29, 2021

Filed

Mar 21, 2022

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected · nationwide

21 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Roy & Rurak, a tax preparation firm, disclosed a ransomware incident affecting 2 Montana residents. Unauthorized remote access was gained to Medaglia & Murphy’s network on or before Dec 29, 2021. The firm paid a ransom after negotiations with the attacker facilitated by the USSS. Affected data included SSNs, financial accounts, and tax returns. Notices were mailed March 16, 2022, offering two years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 82 days

Dec 29, 2021

Discovered

Mar 21, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_07b0767e620745e12022-03-21Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_6c1046d383557b662022-03-21Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_cdab76aef4ac95372022-03-18 · +3dVerified

Name: MCLANE MIDDLETON, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
norm: mclane middleton professional

Name: Roy & Rurak
norm: roy rurak
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 29, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 16, 2022
Affected individuals: 2state + nationwide
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountPIIIdentity (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the cyber security division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)Cooperated with the United States Secret Service (USSS)
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Disabled the Internet connection to the network
Deactivated servers and computers on the network
Removed all potential malware from the servers and computers
Rapidly rebuilt the network
Retained a cyber security attorney and a forensic expert
Initiated the process to notify the cyber security division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Supplied the IRS with the information necessary to activate the IRS’s advance fraud detection and prevention system, called Return Integrity Compliance Services (RICS)
Communicated with and relied on federal law enforcement at the United States Secret Service (USSS)
Paid the ransom
Monitored the dark web to detect if any information that might have been accessed on the network was being offered for sale
Retained Epiq to provide notification letters, call center services, and credit and identity monitoring and restoration protection
Changes made: Offered two years of credit and identity monitoring and restoration protection to all affected adults and minors
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(82 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 18 · first

Maine State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+3d

Montana State AG+3d · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-274.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 21, 2022
Raw hash: d9242d5528c778706a38c62a61ad2e73b01b868835297ee6fd3f166d8e4ecf07

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMCLANE MIDDLETON, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Victim entityRoy & Rurak

Incidentdiscovered Dec 29, 2021

Stated responseDisabled the Internet connection to the network

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov