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State AGConfirmed5 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

Sears Holdings Corporation — September 2017 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Apr 24, 2018 May 18, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

4,490

First → last filing

Apr 24, 2018 May 18, 2018

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_480d2ad8939b4cfe · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. The filings describe a third-party compromise. Intrusion Sep 27, 2017–Oct 12, 2017, discovered Mar 1, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 54 days later (flagged late). 4,490 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Identity (basic), Financial account, PII, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 24-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Apr 24, 2018. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
54days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
25days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
24days

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.

Regulatory clocksOregon OR AG >45dSouth Carolina SC CRA notice dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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