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State AGConfirmed8 filings · 7 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 8 filings

MORGAN STANLEY — January 2021 breach

Clustered 8 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filing window Jul 2, 2021 Jul 7, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

8 filings

States

7

Affected · reported

33,443

First → last filing

Jul 2, 2021 Jul 7, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_34960c4b180d4d2f · merged by human · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 8 regulatory filings. The filings describe a third-party compromise. Intrusion Jan 1, 2021–Jan 31, 2021, discovered May 1, 2021 — the first regulatory filing landed 62 days later. 33,443 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), and Employment. Notifications rolled out on a 5-day schedule across 8 filings beginning Jul 2, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
62days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
19days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
5days

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 clocksWashington WA AG >30dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueOregon OR AG ≤45dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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