Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed Oct 27, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_2edc4f47aa32421d · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
MT ND
HHS OCR · State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Sep 23, 2019
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
State of North Dakota reported to HHS on 2020-10-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 35,416 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing scheme exposing PHI including names, DOB, SSN, driver's license, and financial info. CE implemented additional safeguards.
Affected (this filing): 35,416
State of North Dakota reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2020-10-27. The breach occurred from 9/23/2019 to 12/23/2019. 73 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 73
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.