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The Affiliated Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 19, 2018

To disclose

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Affected

79state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for The Affiliated Group →

The Affiliated Group reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2018-09-19. 79 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Sep 19, 2018

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGSep 18 · first
California State AG+1d
Massachusetts State AG+1d · this page
New Hampshire State AG+9d

Pattern: first filing Sep 18 (MT), last Sep 27 (NH) — a 9-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.