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

BarristerBooks, Inc. — July 2020 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 11, 2020 Nov 12, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

5,649

First → last filing

Nov 11, 2020 Nov 12, 2020

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_273387b675de43aa · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Jul 7, 2020–Sep 11, 2020, discovered Oct 11, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 31 days later. 5,649 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
31days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Filing span
1days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.

Regulatory clocksMaine ME AG >30d · 31dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentials

Incident timeline

Jul 7, 2020breach begins
Oct 11, 2020discovered
notification delay · 31 days
Nov 11, 2020first filing
Nov 12, 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. NOV 11IN AGIN AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 5,649day 0
  2. NOV 11CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  3. NOV 11MA AGMA AG notice111 MA residentsday 0
  4. NOV 11ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 5,649day 0
  5. NOV 11MT AGMT AG notice8 MT residentsday 0
  6. NOV 12NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 22 NH residents+1d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jul 7, 2020
IN AG
Discovered
Oct 11, 2020· 96d undetected
ME AG
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI · PII
CA AG + ME AG + MT AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
CA 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)

5,649

Sum of filed state slices

218· 3.9% of stated

96% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US5,649
MA111
IN51
ME26
NH22
MT8

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
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Jun 12, 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

1 days

Cadence

~1 / 0.2d

vs. multi-state median

9.0× 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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