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

The Savannah College Of Art And Design, Inc. — August 2022 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filing window Sep 21, 2022 → Sep 22, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

7

Affected · reported

16,890

First → last filing

Sep 21, 2022 → Sep 22, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_2c0254a732aa48fc · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Aug 21, 2022–Aug 22, 2022, discovered Aug 22, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 30 days later. 16,890 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), PII, and 1 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
30days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
1days

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 clocksWashington⏱ WA AG >30dMaine✓ ME AG ≤30d · 30dMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

authenticationidentity_government

Incident timeline

Aug 21, 2022breach begins
Aug 22, 2022discovered
notification delay · 30 days
Sep 21, 2022first filing
Sep 22, 2022most 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 21ME AGME AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 16,890day 0
  2. SEP 21MT AGMT AG notice18 MT residentsday 0
  3. SEP 21CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  4. SEP 21NH AGNH AG noticeno count statedday 0
  5. SEP 21IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 16,890day 0
  6. SEP 22WA AGWA AG notice575 WA residents+1d
  7. SEP 22MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 275 MA residents+1d
  8. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Aug 21, 2022 – Aug 22, 2022
ME AG
Discovered
Aug 22, 2022· 1d undetected
ME AG + MT AG + CA AG +2
Data types
Authentication · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
ME AG + MT AG + CA AG +3
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)

16,890

Sum of filed state slices

1,025· 6.1% of stated

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

US16,890
WA575
MA275
IN109
ME48
MT18

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
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

6.0× 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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