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Merged incident · 4 filings

EXETER FINANCE LLC — February 2023 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window May 19, 2023 Jun 7, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

1,435

First → last filing

May 19, 2023 Jun 7, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_3aac3b22e3e8486c · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings. The filings describe hacking. Intrusion Feb 1, 2023–Feb 4, 2023, discovered Feb 4, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 104 days later. 1,435 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, PII, Identity (basic), and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 19-day schedule across 4 filings beginning May 19, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
104days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
79days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
19days

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.

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Feb 1, 2023breach begins
Feb 4, 2023discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 104 days
May 19, 2023first filing
Jun 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. MAY 19IN AGIN AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 1,435day 0
  2. MAY 22NH AGNH AG notice3 NH residents+3d
  3. JUN 7MA AGMA AG notice5 MA residents+19d
  4. JUN 7MT AGMT AG noticemost recent · 1 MT residents+19d
  5. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Feb 1, 2023
IN AG
Discovered
Feb 4, 2023MT AGApr 24, 2023NH AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
NH AG + MT AG + MA AG
Attack vector
Third-Party / Supply Chain
NH 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)

1,435

Sum of filed state slices

25· 1.7% of stated

98% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US1,435
IN16
MA5
NH3
MT1

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 filing4 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
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

19 days

Cadence

~1 / 6.3d

vs. multi-state median

2.4× slower

About this clustering

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