🦬Montana State AG
Clustered 3 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filed Oct 28, 2019. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_42102c44fda14823 · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
CA MT OR
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.
all State AG
per-filing reported counts
State AGs report only their own residents; bars show per-filing counts.
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Sep 15, 2019
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Sep 15, 2019
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG, OREGON AG filings
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.
Auto Approve reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2019-10-28. The breach occurred from 9/15/2019 to 10/6/2019. 173 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 173
Auto Approve, LLC disclosed a data event where a system vulnerability exposed personal information of auto loan customers for approximately three weeks. The vulnerability was discovered on September 15, 2019, after a security researcher alerted the company. The exposed data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, loan information, and vehicle details. Approximately 9,549 California residents were affected. Auto Approve remediated the issue, notified affected individuals, and offered two years of credit monitoring.
Affected (this filing): 9,549
Auto Approve, LLC reported a data breach to the Oregon Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2019-10-28. The breach occurred during 8/28/2019 - 9/19/2019. The breach was discovered on 9/15/2019. 93,759 individuals were affected. Notice was sent on 10/28/2019.
Affected (this filing): 93,759