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State AGConfirmed2 filings · 2 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 2 filings

Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation — May 2020 breach

Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filing window Jul 23, 2020 → Jul 27, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

2 filings

States

2

Affected · reported

20

First → last filing

Jul 23, 2020 → Jul 27, 2020

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_149e79a2d8814d02 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 2 regulatory filings. The filing describes a phishing attack. Intrusion May 1, 2020–May 3, 2020, discovered Jul 2, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 21 days later. 20 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Financial account, Identity (basic), and 2 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
21days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Filing span
4days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.

Regulatory clocksMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

May 1, 2020breach begins
Jul 2, 2020discovered
notification delay · 21 days
Jul 23, 2020first filing
Jul 27, 2020most 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. JUL 23MA AGMA AG noticefirst filing · 19 MA residentsday 0
  2. JUL 27NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 1 NH residents+4d
  3. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
May 1, 2020 – May 3, 2020
NH AG
Discovered
Jul 2, 2020· 62d undetected
NH AG
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID · Financial account · Health (basic) · PII
MA AG + NH AG
Attack vector
Phishing
NH AG

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

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 filing2 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

4 days

vs. multi-state median

2.0× 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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