Charlie’s Tax Service — December 2024 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Dec 4, 2024 → Mar 18, 2025. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

Affected · reported

5,527

First → last filing

Dec 4, 2024 → Mar 18, 2025

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_c501f3d48d8843c0 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings and 1 unverified claim. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Dec 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024, discovered Dec 1, 2024 — the first regulatory filing landed 96 days later. 5,527 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), and Financial account. Notifications rolled out on a 104-day schedule across 4 filings beginning Dec 4, 2024. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay

96days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance

86days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Leak precedence

93days before filing

Days between the first leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. Positive = the claim came first (public exposure before disclosure). Negative = the claim trailed the filing, so there was no pre-disclosure leak. Counts regulatory filings only — press coverage is not a regulatory disclosure.

Filing span

104days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksLeak gap⏱ Leak >90dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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