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

ALPS Brands — April 2020 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Mar 24, 2021 → Apr 7, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

10,788

First → last filing

Mar 24, 2021 → Apr 7, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_249eb2ebc26b4923 · merged by human · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Apr 20, 2020–Feb 26, 2021, discovered Feb 25, 2021 — the first regulatory filing landed 27 days later. 10,788 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Identity (basic), Financial account, Financial credentials, and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 14-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Mar 24, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
27days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
1days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
14days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksMaine✓ ME AG ≤30d · 26dCalifornia✓ CA 60-day OK · 39dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

authenticationfinancial_credentials

Incident timeline

Apr 20, 2020breach begins
Feb 25, 2021discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 27 days
Mar 24, 2021first filing
Apr 7, 2021most 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. MAR 24ME AGME AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 10,778day 0
  2. MAR 26IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 10,788+2d
  3. MAR 29NH AGNH AG notice42 NH residents+5d
  4. APR 5CA AGCA AG noticeno count stated+12d
  5. APR 5MT AGMT AG notice100 MT residents+12d
  6. APR 7MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 186 MA residents+14d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Apr 20, 2020 – Feb 26, 2021
ME AG
Discovered
Feb 25, 2021NH AG + CA AG + MT AGFeb 26, 2021ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Authentication · Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI
ME AG + NH AG + CA AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
ME 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)

10,788

Sum of filed state slices

607· 5.6% of stated

94% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US10,788
IN240
MA186
MT100
NH42
ME39

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
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

14 days

Cadence

~1 / 2.8d

vs. multi-state median

2.3× 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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