PhysicalFinancial ServicesFinanceTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Liberty Tax

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 1, 2015

Filed

Feb 13, 2015

To disclose

12 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Liberty Tax →3 incidents on file

On February 1, 2015, a burglary occurred at a Liberty Tax Service office in Highland, CA. Burglars removed files and computer towers containing password-protected data. Affected data may include names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, income documents, and dependent information. No credit card data was compromised. The company offered one year of free credit monitoring and assistance with IRS and credit agency paperwork.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 days

Feb 1, 2015

Begins

Feb 1, 2015

Discovered

Feb 13, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Liberty Tax
norm: liberty tax
Domain: libertytax.com

Name: Liberty Tax
norm: liberty tax
Domain: libertytax.com
Also named: YBF Tax Incdba oflegal entity
Liberty Tax Servicedba oftrade name
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 1, 2015
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2015
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Contacted the San Bernardino County Sheriff, Highland Department

During the incident: Contacted the San Bernardino County Sheriff, Highland Department, and they are investigating the crime
Offer one year of credit monitoring free of charge to our customers who may have been affected
Work with you to file paperwork with the IRS, State and all credit reporting agencies to help safeguard your personal information
Changes made: Take aggressive steps to protect your personal information, including an active alarm monitoring system, security cameras, and ensuring all records are securely locked
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-48438
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 13, 2015
Raw hash: 7415720bc9f3a9bbc3463d32bf849cf64c77921900f21e404abcb07e682d0917

Reporting entityLiberty Tax

Victim entityLiberty Tax

Incidentdiscovered Feb 1, 2015

Stated responseContacted the San Bernardino County Sheriff, Highland Department, and they are investigating the crime

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov