HackingFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Delayed DiscoveryPIILowContained
Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc.
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Full breach record for Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc. →On or around May 14, 2025, an unauthorized party accessed Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc.'s account on the third-party tax software platform Intuit Lacerte Tax. The forensic investigation concluded July 2, 2025, confirming that an unauthorized actor may have accessed and/or acquired personal information including names and potentially SSNs. 14 Maine residents were among 5,215 total individuals affected. LifeLock identity theft protection (18 months) was offered to affected individuals.
Maine clockDiscovered Jul 2, 2025 → Filed with AG Jul 18, 202516d ✓ ME AG ≤30d16 days 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.
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_d1e2d13404d5545fIndiana State AGfiled 2025-07-18Verified
- bd_d4d8d63f316fcb2eNew Hampshire State AGfiled 2025-07-21(3d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/2f3411de-f434-4fcf-89c8-e0baa273059c.html
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jul 18, 2025
- Raw hash
- db50d22f39eaffee893c97289313b8109a30412f896f7eb43ff85f28e63905f9
Reporting entity
- Name
- Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc.norm: accounting tax associates
- Industry
- Financial Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Accounting & Tax Associates, Inc.norm: accounting tax associates
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 2, 2025
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 18, 2025
- Affected individuals
- 14
- Data types
- PII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- External
- Third party
- via Intuit Inc. Lacerte Tax
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- ME AG ≤30d · 16d
- 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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status Maine Discovered: Jul 2, 2025→ Filed with AG: Jul 18, 202516d 30 days ME AG ≤30d
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.