SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP — August 2026 breach
Clustered 6 records across 5 jurisdictions: 5 filings and 1 leak-site claim · filing window Oct 2, 2026 → Oct 6, 2026 (dated filings only). View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_2d94aba7c6cd4eeb · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no SEC 8-K in this cluster.
Sensitive data
identity_governmentIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident. Filings without a recorded filing day, or recorded as filed before the breach they report began, are not placed on this rail.
Member cascade — every filing and leak-site claim in this incident
- OCT 1MA AGMA AG noticefiling day not on record · 272 MA residents—
- OCT 2CA AGCA AG noticefirst filing · no count statedauto-linkedday 0
- OCT 2VT AGVT AG notice21 VT residentsauto-linkedday 0
- OCT 2OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 204,001auto-linkedday 0
- OCT 5Leak sitesilentransomgroup postattacker claim · unverifiedauto-linked+3d
- OCT 6TX AGTX AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 204,001auto-linked+4d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Aug 31, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026 MA AG
- Discovered
- Sep 1, 2026· 1d undetected MA AG + CA AG + OR AG +1
- Data types
- Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII MA AG + CA AG + VT AG +1
- Attack vector
- Phishing MA 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)
204,001
Sum of filed state slices
2,619· 1.3% of stated
99% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.
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
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
No press coverage linked yet.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
No SEC filing or victim statement yet.
Merge provenance
- Method
- deterministic
- Confidence
- 1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
- 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
4 days
Cadence
~1 / 1.3d
vs. multi-state median
1.5× 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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