One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Nov 2, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_016135bac3214b0c · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Identity (basic) · Government ID
SC
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Aug 18, 2021
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Sep 1, 2021
Reported by SOUTH CAROLINA AG filing
Sumter County, SC, notified individuals of a phishing incident where an employee email account was compromised. Attackers accessed email contents, potentially exposing names, addresses, DOBs, and SSNs/driver's license numbers of employees, vendors, and applicants. The county reset passwords, disabled the account, engaged cybersecurity experts, and offered 12 months of Experian IdentityWorks.
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.