HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Seward and Monde

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 2, 2025

Filed

Oct 3, 2025

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Seward and Monde →

Seward and Monde, a CPA firm, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data incident affecting 2 NH residents. On Sept 2, 2025, unauthorized access to an employee email account was detected. The investigation confirmed the exposure of names and Social Security numbers. The firm disabled the account, reset credentials, engaged forensic specialists, and mailed notices on Oct 3, 2025, offering 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Sep 2, 2025

Discovered

Oct 3, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

13 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Vermont State AGbd_85849c62c16fbc472025-10-03Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_fcea7ad9caf49eb72025-10-02 · +1dVerified

Name: Seward and Monde
norm: seward and monde

Name: Seward and Monde
norm: seward and monde
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 2, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 3, 2025
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: The account was disabled
All active sessions were terminated
Account credentials were reset
Retained external cyber-forensic specialists
Began a comprehensive investigation
Changes made: Taken additional steps to enhance its safeguards
Strengthen its security awareness program
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGOct 2 · first

Vermont State AG+1d

New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/seward-monde-cpas-20251003.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 3, 2025
Raw hash: d0f967d2269ed090ce3e92eb67ce1c3342d671c53656e15e164a51c5f2e60f61

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySeward and Monde

Victim entitySeward and Monde

Incidentdiscovered Sep 2, 2025

Stated responseThe account was disabled

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov