One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Apr 18, 2014. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_0487ad4d9d944937 · merge_method deterministic
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.
Financial account · PII
NH
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Michaels Stores, Inc. filed a security breach notification with the New Hampshire Attorney General on April 18, 2014. The incident involved the compromise of payment card data via skimming devices at point-of-sale terminals. The filing confirms the breach but does not specify the number of affected individuals or the exact dates of the unauthorized access.
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.