Important Notice

Our firm discovered a Business Email Compromise (BEC) incident on Friday, January 24, 2025, indicating that our business email system, hosted by Microsoft Outlook365, was compromised by outside bad actors who appear to have accessed our email accounts and utilized our accounts as a source from which to send phishing scam emails. We have notified local law enforcement and the FBI. Our file servers were not accessed and our client data files are and have been unaffected.

We believe the email system compromise to have been short-lived and targeted for the purpose of using our email addresses to further the intruders' phishing exploits. While we have no reason to believe your personally identifiable information was compromised, it is possible that information emailed to or from our accounts may have been accessed, and so we are sending this notice to alert you of the incident so that you may elect to take steps to protect yourself from exposure. We do not believe that you or your information specifically has been the subject of a data breach, but you may nevertheless wish to take certain protective steps.

While we are not recommending any particular action, you might consider requesting that the credit bureaus place fraud alerts or credit freezes on your accounts:

You may also ask each credit bureau to send you a free credit report after it places a fraud alert on your file. Review your credit reports for accounts and inquiries you don’t recognize. These can be signs of identity theft. If your personal information has been misused, visit the FTC’s site at http://identitytheft.gov/ to report the identity theft and get recovery steps. Even if you do not find any suspicious activity on your initial credit reports, the FTC recommends that you check your credit reports periodically so you can spot problems and address them quickly.

Kane & Stone, P.A. Point of Contact for this Notice: Brian A. Kane, Esq., 240-513-4680