🐻California State AGlinked via multistate filing link · 100%
Clustered 4 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 19, 2020 → Feb 26, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_00df7d6baa514eeb · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
CA ME MT
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Oct 2, 2020
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Oct 2, 2020
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG, MAINE AG filings
Backroads experienced a ransomware incident on October 2, 2020, where files were encrypted and inaccessible. On October 16, 2020, it was discovered that unknown actors had accessed certain files containing employee personal information, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, government IDs, financial account information, and health insurance information. Backroads engaged forensic specialists, rebuilt its network, and offered one year of credit monitoring to affected individuals.
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.
Backroads experienced a ransomware incident on October 2, 2020, where files were encrypted and inaccessible. Investigation revealed that unknown actors had access to certain files containing employee personal information, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, government IDs, financial account information, and health insurance information. Backroads engaged forensic specialists, rebuilt its network, and offered one year of credit monitoring to affected employees.
Backroads reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2020-11-19. The breach occurred from 10/2/2020 to 10/16/2020. 41 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 41
Backroads, a commercial entity, experienced an external system breach on October 2, 2020, which was discovered the same day. The breach affected 18 Maine residents, compromising their names in combination with financial account or credit/debit card numbers and associated security codes or PINs. The company provided written notification to affected individuals on November 19, 2020, and offered 12-24 months of credit and identity monitoring services through Epiq.
Affected (this filing): 18