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Merged incident · 5 filings

Smith Protective Management — July 2021 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Oct 20, 2021 Oct 26, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

79,450

First → last filing

Oct 20, 2021 Oct 26, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_0a0e43d0af4e4a44 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Jul 30, 2021–Aug 1, 2021, discovered Aug 2, 2021 — the first regulatory filing landed 79 days later. 79,450 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 6-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Oct 20, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
79days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
6days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksMaine ME AG >30d · 85dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentialsidentity_government

Incident timeline

Jul 30, 2021breach begins
Aug 2, 2021discovered
notification delay · 79 days
Oct 20, 2021first filing
Oct 26, 2021most recent filing

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. OCT 20MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 7 MT residentsday 0
  2. OCT 20IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 79,450day 0
  3. OCT 22MA AGMA AG notice1 MA residents+2d
  4. OCT 26ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 79,450+6d
  5. OCT 26ME AGME AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 79,450+6d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jul 30, 2021
IN AG
Discovered
Aug 2, 2021· 3d undetected
MT AG + ME AG
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · Government ID
MT AG + ME AG + MA AG
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
MT AG

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

Count reconciliation

per-state reported counts

Nationwide (stated in a filing)

79,450

Sum of filed state slices

31· 0.0% of stated

100% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US79,450
IN20
MT7
ME3
MA1

State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice. The gray US row is the nationwide total reported in a linked filing.

Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies

Leak-site claim

No leak-site claim on record for this incident.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing5 members

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

SEC 8-K / victim statement

No SEC filing or victim statement yet.

Merge provenance

Method
deterministic
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Jun 12, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
Audit
Every link edge records its method, confidence and model + prompt versions (100% is the strongest edge).

Merges are reversible — a wrong link can be detached with its audit trail intact. How merging works.

Filing velocity

Spread

6 days

Cadence

~1 / 1.5d

vs. multi-state median

1.3× faster

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. This page states only what the linked filings agree on; each filing's own account stays on its own record, linked from the timeline below.

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