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

Shein — June 2018 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Sep 21, 2018 Oct 11, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

6,430,000

First → last filing

Sep 21, 2018 Oct 11, 2018

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_19beff0595744e83 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Jun 1, 2018–Aug 1, 2018, discovered Aug 8, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 44 days later (flagged late). 6,430,000 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Credentials, PII, Identity (basic), and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 20-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Sep 21, 2018. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
44days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
14days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
20days

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 clocksOregon OR AG >45dCalifornia CA 60-day OK · 30dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Incident timeline

Jun 1, 2018breach begins
Aug 8, 2018discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 44 days
Sep 21, 2018first filing
Oct 11, 2018most 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. SEP 21MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. SEP 21NH AGNH AG notice6,420,000 affectedday 0
  3. OCT 10MA AGMA AG notice10,000 MA residents+19d
  4. OCT 10CA AGCA AG noticestates nationwide total 6,420,000+19d
  5. OCT 11WA AGWA AG notice6,420,000 affected+20d
  6. OCT 11OR AGOR AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 6,420,000+20d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jun 1, 2018Aug 1, 2018
NH AG
Discovered
Aug 8, 2018OR AGAug 22, 2018MT AG + NH AG + CA AG +1filings disagree on discovery
Data types
Credentials · Financial account · Identity (basic) · PII
MT AG + NH AG + CA AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
MT 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)

6,420,000

Sum of filed state slices

10,000· 0.2% of stated

100% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

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

20 days

Cadence

~1 / 4d

vs. multi-state median

2.5× 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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