One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Jun 19, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_2477350aa6234f10 · merge_method deterministic
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
May 15, 2017
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. filed a data breach notification with the California Attorney General. The filing lists the date of the breach as May 15, 2017. The attached consumer notification letter is empty/redacted in the provided source, so no further details regarding the nature of the breach, data types affected, or number of individuals impacted are available for extraction.
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. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.