Incident · State breach notice (California AG)
IMA Diligence Services data breach: why a due-diligence firm had your files, and what was taken
Compiled from public records. Updated 2026-11-13. By the cisonews.net Desk.
The IMA Diligence Services data breach affected 525,306 people, the total IMA Diligence Services LLC reported to Indiana's attorney general for notices sent on May 29, 2026, for a breach dated December 8, 2025. IMA Diligence Services, a Wichita, Kansas firm that analyses data its clients share with it, says an unauthorized actor got into a file server between December 8 and December 16, 2025 and took some files. The server was a legacy machine managed by a third party, and it has since been decommissioned. Indiana's attorney general records 525,306 people in total. Letters dated May 29, 2026 offer 12 months of credit monitoring through Cyberscout.
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Why did I get a letter from IMA Diligence?
The letter says the firm holds people's data because it provides professional services that involve analysing data shared with it. It does not name the clients whose data it held. The guide to letters from companies you never dealt with explains how vendors end up holding people's records.
What happened at IMA Diligence?
On or about December 16, 2025, IMA Diligence learned that files on the third-party-managed legacy server were inaccessible. It brought in outside cybersecurity specialists, notified law enforcement and then reviewed the files to find whose information they held.
| Date | What the letter and the regulators' records say |
|---|---|
| December 8, 2025 | Unauthorized access to the file server begins |
| December 16, 2025 | IMA Diligence finds the files inaccessible; access ends |
| May 29, 2026 | Letter date; recorded by Indiana, Washington and Massachusetts |
| June 1, 2026 | Recorded by California; posted on the Texas attorney general's list |
The letters went out 164 days after the discovery. The guide to notice delays compares that with the rest of the log.
What information was involved?
The filed letter leaves the list of data blank, to be filled in for each reader. The state records list the categories:
| Regulator | Information it records |
|---|---|
| Washington attorney general | Name; Social Security number; driver's license or Washington ID card number; financial and banking information; full date of birth; health insurance policy or ID number; medical information |
| Texas attorney general | Name; address; Social Security number; driver's license number; financial information; medical information; health insurance information |
| Massachusetts consumer affairs office | Social Security numbers, financial accounts and driver's licenses marked as breached; medical records and payment cards not |
The firm says it is not aware of any misuse of the information.
How many people were affected?
| Regulator | What it counts | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana attorney general | Total affected | 525,306 |
| Texas attorney general | Texans | 70,928 |
| Indiana attorney general | Indiana residents | 3,392 |
| Washington attorney general | Washingtonians | 1,977 |
| Massachusetts consumer affairs office | Massachusetts residents | 934 |
It is the 20th largest notice in Indiana's 2026 report.
What is IMA Diligence offering?
Twelve months of credit monitoring and identity restoration from Cyberscout, a TransUnion company, at no cost. People must enroll themselves.
| Item | Detail from the letter |
|---|---|
| Provider | Cyberscout (TransUnion) |
| Length | 12 months |
| Phone | 1-844-593-7939, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday to Friday, excluding holidays |
| Postal address | 430 East Douglas Avenue, Suite 400, Wichita, KS 67202 |
What the documents leave open
- Which clients' data was on the server, and why it held health insurance and medical information.
- Who managed the legacy server, and how the actor got in.
- Why the files became inaccessible.
How this disclosure's timing compares
IMA Diligence Services disclosed 164 days after the discovery date its notice gives. Across the 206 other state breach notices on cisonews.net that date discovery to the day, the median gap is 100 days.
California's breach-notice rule
California's breach law (Civil Code § 1798.82 for businesses, § 1798.29 for state agencies) requires any person or business that must notify more than 500 California residents of a single breach to submit one sample copy of that notice to the Attorney General electronically. The California Attorney General's breach list, where this notice was found, is built from those submissions. Source: California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Data Security Breach Reporting. The guide Data breach laws by state: notice deadlines and attorney general thresholds in 23 states reads the rule in full, and the glossary defines Breach notification law.
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- Troutman Pepper Locke, Breach notice, first disclosed October 28, 2026; 63,358 affected in total (Indiana Attorney General)
- Baker & McKenzie, Breach notice, first disclosed October 27, 2026; 25,837 affected in total (Indiana Attorney General)
Sources
- 2026-05-29 · AIMA Diligence Services, LLC, notice of data breach filed with the California Attorney General, published May 29, 2026
- 2026-11-07 · ACalifornia Attorney General, data breach notification record, published November 7, 2026
- 2026-11-07 · AIndiana Attorney General, data breach year-to-date report (2026), published November 7, 2026
- 2026-11-07 · ATexas Attorney General, data security breach reports, published November 7, 2026
- 2026-11-07 · AWashington State Office of the Attorney General, data breach notifications list, published November 7, 2026
- 2026-11-07 · AMassachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, 2026 Data Breach Notification Report, published November 7, 2026
- undated · ACalifornia Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Data Security Breach Reporting
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