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TaxSquad
TaxSquad notified California AG on Oct 28, 2022 of a data breach, which occurred on Aug 22, 2022. Data exposed: Social Security number, Date of birth, Email address, Postal address, Name.
Case file (dates, days to notice against the statute, what the letter offers, prior incidents)
- Organization
- TaxSquad
- Source
- California AG · source record
- Date reported
- Oct 28, 2022
- Date(s) of breach
- Wednesday, August 17, 2022Monday, August 22, 2022
- Residents affected
- Not published by this source
- Data exposed
- Social Security number Date of birth Email address Postal address Name
- Notice letter
- Sample notice (PDF)
- Discovered
- Sep 16, 2022, as stated in the letter"As part of that investigation, on September 16, 2022, we determined that someone may have accessed certain TaxSquad email accounts without authorization."
- Days to notice
- 42 days from discovery (Sep 16, 2022) to the California record (Oct 28, 2022). Statute: 30 days from discovery or notification of the breach (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.82). Over the statutory period
- Offered in the letter
- 12 months of credit or identity monitoring through Experian
- First seen by BreachTally
- 2026-10-30 16:01 UTC
Dates and counts as filed by the organization with the agency. The breach window and the report date often differ by months.
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