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Leak SiteState AGConfirmed9 filings · 7 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcednokoyawahigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 9 filings

Gaston College — February 2023 breach

Clustered 9 filings across 8 jurisdictions · filing window Mar 9, 2023 → Aug 29, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

9 filings

States

7

Affected · reported

191,324

First → last filing

Mar 9, 2023 → Aug 29, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_1444f304966e444e · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings and 2 unverified claims. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Feb 21, 2023–Feb 22, 2023, discovered Feb 22, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 184 days later (flagged late). 191,324 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), PII, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 172-day schedule across 7 filings beginning Mar 9, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
184days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
139days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Leak precedence
168days before filing

Days between the first leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. Positive = the claim came first (public exposure before disclosure). Negative = the claim trailed the filing, so there was no pre-disclosure leak. Counts regulatory filings only — press coverage is not a regulatory disclosure.

Filing span
172days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksVermont✗ VT AG >45 bdayLeak gap⏱ Leak >90dMaine⏱ ME AG >30d · 49dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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