Perkins & Co is a Portland, Oregon-based accounting firm that helps individuals and businesses with things like tax preparation, risk management, audits, and more. The organization deals with thousands of individuals each year and helps a large number of businesses as well.
It's unclear what specific data could have been exposed in this Perkins breach, but some or all of the following may have been released.
Attackers breached the Perkins file servers and made copies of private files. The hackers also encrypted some of the company's files in a ransomware attack and demanded payment to unlock the files. The breach could have exposed personal data for Perkins' clients and employees.
Experts believe the Perkins breach started on November 8 and concluded on December 3, 2020.
This Perkins Inc. breach may impact clients and employees at the company. Both groups had private information stored on the file servers at the company, and the attackers gained access to the full system network. If you receive a letter from the company, you may have been exposed to this attack. The company is offering IDX identity theft protection services for 12 or 24 months to impacted individuals for free.
This Perkins breach has the potential to impact thousands of data files; though a smaller number of the files were encrypted, even the unencrypted files may have been accessed, copied, and utilized.