🌽Iowa State AGFirst filing
Filed Feb 25, 2025bd_a6fda0844b5de36b
City of Cedar Falls, Iowa, a government sector entity reported a data breach to the Iowa Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2025-02-25.
Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed Feb 25, 2025. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_34548e19cd0e471c · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Time between earliest and latest filing
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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.
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Jun 19, 2024
Reported by MARYLAND AG filing
City of Cedar Falls, Iowa, a government sector entity reported a data breach to the Iowa Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2025-02-25.
City of Cedar Falls, Iowa notified Maryland AG of a June 2024 ransomware incident. One Maryland resident's PII (name, DOB, SSN, DL, health info) was accessed. City restored from backups and enhanced security (MFA, patching, firewall updates). Notification sent Feb 2025 with credit monitoring.
Affected (this filing): 1
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.