high severity June 22, 2026 · 5 min read

O'Leary-Guth Law Office, S.C. Data Breach Notice (Vermont Attorney General)

If you received a notice from O'Leary-Guth Law Office, S.C., here’s what the filing says was exposed, and what to do about it.

O'Leary-Guth Law Office, S.C. notified Vermont residents of a data breach in a filing reported to the Vermont Attorney General on June 22, 2026, and the notice lists social security numbers among the information exposed.

O'Leary-Guth Law Office, S.C. Data Breach Notice (Vermont Attorney General)

The exposure of your Social Security number in this incident cannot be undone. A Social Security number does not expire, cannot be reissued on request, and remains permanently valuable to identity thieves. For the three people named in this filing, that risk is now permanent.

Social Security Numbers Do Not Expire

When a password is exposed you can change it. When a credit card is compromised you can cancel it. A Social Security number offers neither option. Once it leaves the control of O'Leary-Guth Law Office, S.C. it stays valuable for the rest of your life. The Vermont filing lists Social Security numbers as the sole category of information exposed. No passwords, no credentials, and no other identifiers appear in the record.

This is the core fact that shapes every decision after this breach. The three affected individuals now carry an unchangeable identifier that can be used to open accounts, file fraudulent tax returns, claim government benefits, or build synthetic identities. That risk does not decay with time.

What the Vermont Filing Actually Tells Us

On June 22, 2026, O'Leary-Guth Law Office, S.C. filed notice with the Vermont Attorney General that a data breach had occurred. The filing states that Social Security numbers belonging to three Vermont residents were exposed. The record contains no incident date, no description of how access occurred, and no information about encryption. Those details remain undisclosed.

You’ve used today’s 5 free articles · resets tomorrow

Create a free account to keep reading

The rest of this article comes straight back — free, no card, nothing you’ve already read goes away. Then see whether your own data is exposed too: the scan on this site is free with or without an account, and the account is what keeps the result after the emailed link expires.

Reading this for a company?

GalaxyWarden Signals watches the organisations you name and emails you when one of them actually discloses — SEC 8-K Item 1.05 filings and corroborated breach records, with a JSON API. It monitors companies, not people: it does not scan you and does not remove your personal data.

See GalaxyWarden Signals →

Or make a free reader account first

Free reader account

No card, no charge. You read the blog without a limit — every article, no daily count — and it saves your exposure-scan results so you can open them again after the emailed link expires. We won’t email you anything else unless you tick the box asking us to. The next step shows what the paid plans add — free stays the first option on it.

Create a free account →

Free accounts are for personal use. If you’re reading for a company, that’s Signals (terms).

Already have an account? Log in

Report details & sourcing

Severity High includes at least one identifier that cannot be reissued

Disclosed June 22, 2026

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 3

Data exposed Social Security Numbers

By GalaxyWarden Threat Research · Editorial & sourcing standards

Editorial & sourcing policy

GalaxyWarden is a breach-monitoring service and news aggregator. We do not exfiltrate, host, purchase, or redistribute stolen data. Breach information is compiled from publicly accessible sources and threat-intelligence platforms, and is reported as claims attributed to their source. We promptly correct or remove material shown to be inaccurate — see our content & takedown policy or write to support@galaxywarden.com.

Related breaches

critical September 30, 2026