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State AGConfirmed3 filings · 3 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 3 filings

Advance America, Cash Advance Centers of Washington, LLC — February 2023 breach

Clustered 3 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filing window Aug 21, 2023 → Sep 7, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

3 filings

States

3

Affected · reported

26,092

First → last filing

Aug 21, 2023 → Sep 7, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_395d7cd705b4452b · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 3 regulatory filings. The filing describes a ransomware attack. Intrusion Feb 7, 2023, discovered Feb 7, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 195 days later (flagged late). 26,092 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, PII, Identity (basic), and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 17-day schedule across 3 filings beginning Aug 21, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
195days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
17days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

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

Regulatory clocksWashington✗ WA AG >90dOregon✗ OR AG >45dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Feb 7, 2023breach begins
Feb 7, 2023discovered
notification delay · 195 days
Aug 21, 2023first filing
Sep 7, 2023most 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. AUG 21CA AGCA AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. SEP 6WA AGWA AG notice26,092 WA residents+16d
  3. SEP 7OR AGOR AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 3,143+17d
  4. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Feb 7, 2023
CA AG
Discovered
Feb 7, 2023
CA AG + WA AG + OR AG
Data types
Financial account · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
CA AG + WA AG
Attack vector
Ransomware
WA AG

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

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 filing3 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

17 days

Cadence

~1 / 8.5d

vs. multi-state median

2.1× 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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