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Merged incident · 9 filings

American Frame Corporation — August 2020 breach

Clustered 9 filings across 9 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 14, 2021 Feb 1, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

9 filings

States

9

Affected · reported

30,502

First → last filing

Jan 14, 2021 Feb 1, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_3422fe8f52cd41eb · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 9 regulatory filings. Intrusion Aug 1, 2020, discovered Aug 1, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 166 days later (flagged late). 30,502 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 18-day schedule across 9 filings beginning Jan 14, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
166days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
18days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

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

Regulatory clocksMaine ME AG >90d · 177dWashington WA AG >90dOregon OR AG >45dCalifornia CA 60-day late · 166dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Aug 1, 2020breach begins
Aug 1, 2020discovered
notification delay · 166 days
Jan 14, 2021first filing
Feb 1, 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. JAN 14IN AGIN AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 30,502day 0
  2. JAN 14MT AGMT AG notice116 MT residentsday 0
  3. JAN 25ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 30,502+11d
  4. JAN 25WA AGWA AG notice954 WA residents+11d
  5. JAN 25OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 30,502+11d
  6. JAN 25ID AGID AG notice117 ID residents+11d
  7. JAN 25CA AGCA AG noticeno count stated+11d
  8. JAN 27MA AGMA AG notice1,381 MA residents+13d
  9. FEB 1NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 266 NH residents+18d
  10. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Aug 1, 2020
IN AG
Discovered
Aug 1, 2020
MT AG + ME AG + WA AG +4
Data types
Financial account · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI · PII
MT AG + WA AG + ID AG +4
Attack vector
Ransomware
MT 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)

30,502

Sum of filed state slices

3,554· 11.7% of stated

88% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US30,502
MA1,381
WA954
IN412
ME308
NH266
ID117
MT116

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 filing9 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

18 days

Cadence

~1 / 2.3d

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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