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Update on the Clark & Anderson, P.A. breach

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Dissent

On September 23, I reported on an unencrypted backup drive stolen from an accounting firm employee’s vehicle:

A Maryland accounting firm had to notify 2,906 Maryland residents after an unencrypted backup drive was stolen from an employee’s car at his home.

The theft occurred on August 4, but Clark & Anderson, P.A. didn’t learn of it until August 8.  In a letter dated August 30 to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, they indicated that they were starting to notify affected individuals.

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Today I can add the names of their Maryland clients affected by this breach. Links below go to their reports to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office:

  • Air Technologies
  • Allegeon Consulting & Training Services (Part 2) (Part 3)
  • Anne Arundel County Fraternal Order of Police Maryland Lodge #70
  • Argos Properties LLC
  • Baltimore Lock & Hardware
  • Bonnie Branch Woods Development
  • C&R Electric
  • Circle Machine Service
  • City Imports Ltd.
  • Coburn Chemicals
  • Condor Commercial Construction
  • deBorja & Perez-Alard, P.A. (Part 2) (Part 3)
  • Eagle Cove School
  • Eastern Pile Driving, LLC
  • Eugene P. Nepa
  • Glen Burnie Improvement Association
  • GP South, Inc.
  • Hugh L. Thomas 
  • Jack J. Schmerling
  • Jay P. Kimmel
  • John E. Brewis
  • John K. Gardner P.A.
  • Kelly’s Royal Tile Company
  • Lauren Maddox (Part 2) (Part 3)
  • Lessans, Praley & McCormick
  • Michele K. Peterson
  • New Era Sales
  • Northern Bay Environmental Systems
  • O.T. Neighoff & Sons Inc.
  • Pasadena Hardware
  • Pasadena Jewelers
  • Pasadena Yacht Yard
  • Road Safety, LLC (Part 2)
  • Ronald W. Johnson Associates
  • Schillinger’s Farm Inc. (Pappa John’s)
  • Singleton Funeral & Cremation Services
  • The Coordinating Center
  • Title Rite Services
  • Ventnor Marine Service
  • William J Trepp DDS P.A.
  • Wood Floors Plus (Part 2)
  • Words &Numbers

Pretty much all of the above sent notification letters based on what Clark & Anderson had provided for them to use. From the ones I skimmed, they didn’t offer their employees or recipients any credit monitoring services. Interestingly, perhaps, three of the affected firms referred to Clark & Anderson as their “former” accounting firm in their reports to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. Whether the “former” relationship is as a result of the breach was not indicated, but was Clark & Anderson retaining data from then-former clients on a portable device, or were they still clients at the time?

A copy of Clark & Anderson’s notification letter to clients was also uploaded on Vermont Attorney General’s site, but there is no information as to how many individuals in Vermont were affected. The breach was not reported to New Hampshire by Clark & Anderson, nor to California.

I also discovered that the laptop was subsequently recovered on October 3, but I do not know the circumstances surrounding the recovery or whether forensic examination was able to determine if the data had been accessed.

[Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly referenced a stolen laptop. It was a backup drive. ]

 

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