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State AGConfirmed7 filings · 6 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 7 filings

Six Continents Hotels — August 2016 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Feb 3, 2017 Apr 14, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

1,043,686

First → last filing

Feb 3, 2017 Apr 14, 2017

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_0dd51f6fb2ca4fbf · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings. The filings describe malware. Intrusion Aug 1, 2016–Dec 29, 2016, discovered Dec 28, 2016 — the first regulatory filing landed 37 days later. 1,043,686 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: PCI, Financial account, Financial credentials, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 70-day schedule across 7 filings beginning Feb 3, 2017. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
37days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
62days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
70days

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 clocksCalifornia CA 60-day OK · 37dOregon OR AG ≤45dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentials

Incident timeline

Aug 1, 2016breach begins
Dec 28, 2016discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 37 days
Feb 3, 2017first filing
Apr 14, 2017most 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. FEB 3CA AGCA AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. APR 14MT AGMT AG notice3,949 MT residents+70d
  3. APR 14MA AGMA AG notice14,250 MA residents+70d
  4. APR 14CA AGCA AG noticeno count stated+70d
  5. APR 14WA AGWA AG notice13,825 WA residents+70d
  6. APR 14NH AGNH AG notice3,956 NH residents+70d
  7. APR 14OR AGOR AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 1,043,686+70d
  8. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Aug 1, 2016Dec 20, 2016
CA AG
Discovered
Dec 28, 2016CA AGJan 1, 2017WA AG + NH AGFeb 28, 2017OR AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI
CA AG + MA AG + WA AG +1
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
CA 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)

1,043,686

Sum of filed state slices

35,980· 3.4% of stated

97% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US1,043,686
MA14,250
WA13,825
NH3,956
MT3,949

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 filing7 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
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

70 days

Cadence

~1 / 11.7d

vs. multi-state median

8.8× slower

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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