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State AGConfirmed6 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

Paxton Media Group — February 2021 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Jun 24, 2021 Aug 4, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

20,835

First → last filing

Jun 24, 2021 Aug 4, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_120c89b217654955 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Feb 26, 2021–Mar 20, 2021, discovered Mar 20, 2021 — the first regulatory filing landed 96 days later. 20,835 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), PII, and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 41-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Jun 24, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
96days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
100days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
41days

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 clocksMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueMaine ME AG ≤30d · 30dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Feb 26, 2021breach begins
Mar 20, 2021discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 96 days
Jun 24, 2021first filing
Aug 4, 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. JUN 24MA AGMA AG noticefirst filing · 23 MA residentsday 0
  2. JUN 24IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 5,295day 0
  3. JUN 28NH AGNH AG noticeno count stated+4d
  4. JUL 28MT AGMT AG notice6 MT residents+34d
  5. JUL 28ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 20,835+34d
  6. AUG 4NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 6 NH residents+41d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Feb 26, 2021
IN AG
Discovered
Mar 20, 2021NH AG + MT AGJun 28, 2021ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
MA AG + NH AG + ME AG +1
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
NH 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)

20,835

Sum of filed state slices

3,903· 18.7% of stated

81% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US20,835
IN3,862
MA23
MT6
ME6
NH6

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 filing6 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

41 days

Cadence

~1 / 8.2d

vs. multi-state median

5.1× 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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