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Frank Rim & Associates CPA PC

listed as advancedtaxsolutions.com · Claimed by Settra · listed 6 days ago

6d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 11, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Settra
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Professional Services
Listed on leak site
Aug 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Frank Rim & Associates CPA PC is a tax consulting practice based in Denver, Colorado that has operated for decades serving thousands of taxpayers. They provide comprehensive tax services including IRS representation, tax dispute resolution, installment agreements, appeals, and payroll tax services for individuals and small businesses.

Industry
Tax Consulting & IRS Representation Services
Address
1609 Gaylord Street, Denver, CO 80206

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of highly sensitive regulated data at scale: complete PII (SSN, DOB, addresses), financial records, bank account details, medical insurance information for thousands of clients accumulated over decades. This includes IRS-protected tax information and creates substantial identity theft, fraud, and financial harm risk.

Settra claims to have exfiltrated a complete archive of client files from Frank Rim & Associates, including all tax documentation, personal financial records, IRS correspondence, and contact management system data spanning multiple decades of client relationships.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Tax returns (1040, 941, 940, 1099, state returns)
  • Social Security numbers
  • Full names and dates of birth
  • Home addresses and ZIP codes
  • Bank account numbers and balances
  • Paycheck stubs and earnings history
  • IRS correspondence and notices (CP504, CP521, Letter 2050)
  • Power of Attorney forms (Form 2848)
  • Installment agreement documents with payment details
  • Medical insurance records (1095B/1095C)
  • Spouse/dependent information
  • Phone numbers (office and personal)
  • CRM data (ACT!/Swiftpage) with meeting history and negotiations
  • Engagement letters and fee estimates
  • IRS representation records with agent details
  • Collection proceedings and appeal documents
  • Financial calculations and amended tax returns
  • Freedom of Information Act requests
  • Colorado state tax documents

What the group claims

Frank Rim & Associates: Archive of a Tax Consulting Practice PROLOGUE Every tax case. Initial cl...

The leak post

captured from the group's site
# Frank Rim & Associates: Archive of a Tax Consulting Practice
Every tax case. Initial client meetings. Letters containing full details. Financial calculations of IRS liabilities. Paycheck stubs. Social Security numbers. Home addresses and ZIP codes. Bank accounts and balances. Tax returns. All IRS correspondence. Court collection notices. Installment agreement plans with the federal tax authority. Medical insurance coverage. Family members. Dependents. Children.
A contact management system (CRM) with the full history of meetings and negotiations. Automated export and backup processes.
**This article contains only a portion of the data. The full archive will be available to download and review independently once it is published.**
## Part I. Frank Rim & Associates CPA PC
**Frank Rim & Associates CPA PC** — a tax consulting practice in Denver, Colorado. Has operated for decades, serving thousands of taxpayers.
  * 1609 Gaylord Street, Denver, CO 80206

  
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**Frank Rim & Associates areas of practice:**
  * Tax returns (1040, 941, 940, 1099, state returns)
  * Payroll taxes (FUTA, FICA, federal/state withholding)
  * IRS representation (Power of Attorney, direct representat…

Sources

Source

Indexed 6 days ago

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Disclosure context

About settra

Settra is a ransomware group first observed in June 2026 with an apparent primary motivation of financial gain, having claimed at least 11 victims within a relatively short operational window. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation from major threat intelligence sources such as CISA, FBI, or Mandiant at this time, detailed technical attribution remains unconfirmed. Their targeting pattern shows a geographic concentration in the United States, Taiwan, Portugal, Singapore, and Canada, suggesting an opportunistic rather than narrowly focused regional strategy. Affected sectors include Consumer Services, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics, and Agriculture and Food Production, indicating the group does not restrict itself to a single vertical and likely prioritizes target accessibility over sector-specific expertise. No publicly documented information is currently available to confirm their country of origin, RaaS affiliation, specific initial access vectors, encryption methodology, or extortion tactics, and no major law enforcement actions against the group have been publicly reported as of this writing. Given their nascent operational timeline and limited victim count, Settra should be considered an emerging threat actor warranting continued monitoring as their tactics, techniques, and procedures become better characterized through future incident reporting and threat intelligence disclosures. The group has been linked to 40 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on June 28, 2026; most recent post August 16, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 11, 2026advancedtaxsolutions.com listed by settraon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by settra

settra has been linked to 40 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full settra dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Professional Services sector, which has 14 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, advancedtaxsolutions.com is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by settra means advancedtaxsolutions.com appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on settra's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.