The accounting,
consulting and wealth management firm Moss Adams has posted a cybersecurity
incident notice centered on an employee email account that was accessed by an
unauthorized person compromising PII.

In the statement,
which appeared on the California Attorney General’s data breach website, Moss Adams stated
that on October 10, 2019 a staffer’s email account was accessed by an unknown
third party. Some of the information contained in the breached account included
names and Social Security numbers of an undisclosed number of customer or
employees.

Only
information contained in the email account was exposed, the malicious actor did
not obtain access to the company’s general computer network.

The company is
in the process of notifying those affected, has started an internal
investigation and is offering a year of free account monitoring.

Moss Adams
has not yet responded to an SC Media request for additional information.