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

Meridian Health Services — December 2019 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 1, 2020 Apr 27, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

111,372

First → last filing

Jan 1, 2020 Apr 27, 2020

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_17ee2a1295ef426f · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Dec 9, 2019–Dec 11, 2019, discovered Dec 11, 2019 — the first regulatory filing landed 21 days later. 111,372 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Financial account, PCI, and 3 more. Notifications rolled out on a 117-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Jan 1, 2020. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
21days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
78days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
117days

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 dueHIPAA HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Dec 9, 2019breach begins
Dec 11, 2019discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 21 days
Jan 1, 2020first filing
Apr 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. JAN 1IL AGIL AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. APR 27MA AGMA AG notice10 MA residents+117d
  3. APR 27HHS OCRHHS OCR noticestates nationwide total 111,372+117d
  4. APR 27NH AGNH AG notice7 NH residents+117d
  5. APR 27IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 111,372+117d
  6. APR 27MT AGMT AG noticemost recent · 7 MT residents+117d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Dec 9, 2019Dec 11, 2019
NH AG
Discovered
Dec 11, 2019MT AGFeb 27, 2020IL AG + NH AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI · PHI
MA AG + HHS OCR + NH AG +1
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
HHS OCR

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)

111,372

Sum of filed state slices

87,019· 78.1% of stated

22% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US111,372
IN86,995
MA10
NH7
MT7

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

117 days

Cadence

~1 / 23.4d

vs. multi-state median

14.6× 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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