THE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC. — May 2023 breach
Clustered 6 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Jul 18, 2023 → May 1, 2024. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_4414fe05f81448c8 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
Days between the first leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. 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
Materiality delta · SEC filing delay
Sensitive data
authenticationidentity_governmentIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.
Member cascade — every filing about this breach
- JUL 18Leak sitealphv postfirst filing · attacker claim · unverifiedoperator-confirmedday 0
- JUL 19SEC 8-KSEC 8-K noticeno count statedoperator-confirmed+1d
- JUL 19Leak sitecl0p postattacker claim · unverifiedauto-linked+1d
- AUG 31WA AGWA AG notice150,535 WA residentsoperator-confirmed+44d
- OCT 18WA AGWA AG notice1,453 WA residents+92d
- OCT 19ME AGME AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 3operator-confirmed+93d
- 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
- May 31, 2023WA AGJul 11, 2023WA AGSep 20, 2023ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
- Data types
- Authentication · Credentials · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII WA AG + ME 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
93 days
Cadence
~1 / 18.6d
vs. multi-state median
11.6× 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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