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State AGConfirmed7 filings · 7 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 7 filings

Vermont Christmas Company — November 2021 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filed Aug 9, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

7

Affected · reported

12,533

First → last filing

Aug 9, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_20f98519a1a14cc7 · merged by human · confidence 100%

Part of the CommerceV3 supply-chain incident (2023) — at least 24 organizations filed notifications naming this third party.
Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings. The filings describe a third-party compromise. Intrusion Nov 24, 2021–Dec 14, 2022, discovered Jun 8, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 62 days later. 12,533 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Identity (basic), Financial account, Financial credentials, and 2 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
62days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Filing span
0days

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 clocksMaine⏱ ME AG >30d · 62dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

authenticationfinancial_credentials

Incident timeline

Nov 24, 2021breach begins
Jun 8, 2023discovered
notification delay · 62 days
Aug 9, 2023first filing
—watching for filings

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. AUG 9VT AGVT AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. AUG 9MA AGMA AG notice704 MA residentsday 0
  3. AUG 9MT AGMT AG notice64 MT residentsday 0
  4. AUG 9IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 12,533day 0
  5. AUG 9CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  6. AUG 9NH AGNH AG noticeno count statedday 0
  7. AUG 9ME AGME AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 12,533day 0
  8. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Nov 24, 2021 – Dec 14, 2022
VT AG
Discovered
Jun 8, 2023· 561d undetected
ME AG
Data types
Authentication · Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI
VT AG + MT AG + CA AG +3
Attack vector
Third-Party / Supply Chain
VT 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)

12,533

Sum of filed state slices

1,138· 9.1% of stated

91% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US12,533
MA704
IN218
ME152
MT64

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 filing7 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
human
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
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

0 days

Cadence

~1 / 0d

vs. multi-state median

20.0× 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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