THE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC. — July 2023 breach
Clustered 3 records across 2 jurisdictions: 2 filings and 1 leak-site claim · filing window Jul 19, 2023 → Aug 31, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_4414fe05f81448c8 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Days between the first sighting of the earliest-seen leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. Measured from when the aggregator first saw the post, not the crew's own (often earlier) date. Positive = the claim came first (public exposure before disclosure). Negative = the claim trailed the filing, so there was no pre-disclosure leak. Counts regulatory filings only — press coverage is not a regulatory disclosure.
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — needs two dated filings.
Sensitive data
authenticationidentity_governmentIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.
Member cascade — every filing and leak-site claim in this incident
- JUL 18Leak sitealphv postfirst record · attacker claim · unverifiedoperator-confirmedday 0
- JUL 19SEC 8-KSEC 8-K noticeno count statedoperator-confirmed+1d
- AUG 31WA AGWA AG noticemost recent · 150,535 WA residentsoperator-confirmed+44d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Jul 11, 2023 – Aug 20, 2023 WA AG
- Discovered
- Jul 11, 2023 WA AG
- Data types
- Authentication · Credentials · Identity (basic) · Government ID WA AG
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access 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
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
No press coverage linked yet.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
Merge provenance
- Method
- deterministic
- Confidence
- 1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
- Reviewed
- operator-reviewed Aug 9, 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
43 days
vs. multi-state median
7.2× 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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