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State AGConfirmed4 filings · 3 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 4 filings

HintonBurdick CPA & Advisors — February 2019 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filing window May 10, 2019 Jun 19, 2019. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

3

Affected · reported

not comparable

First → last filing

May 10, 2019 Jun 19, 2019

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_48d3344184f648a8 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings. Intrusion Feb 5, 2019–Mar 5, 2019, discovered Mar 11, 2019 — the first regulatory filing landed 60 days later. Data reported: Government ID, PII, Credentials, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 40-day schedule across 4 filings beginning May 10, 2019. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
60days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
40days

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 clocksMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Feb 5, 2019breach begins
Mar 11, 2019discovered
notification delay · 60 days
May 10, 2019first filing
Jun 19, 2019most 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 10MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 11 MT residentsday 0
  2. MAY 18NH AGNH AG notice2 NH residents+8d
  3. JUN 18MT AGMT AG notice5 MT residents+39d
  4. JUN 19MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 2 MA residents+40d
  5. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Feb 5, 2019Mar 5, 2019
MT AG
Discovered
Mar 11, 2019· 34d undetected
MT AG + NH AG
Data types
Credentials · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
MT AG + NH AG + MA AG
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
MT AG

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

Affected residents by state

per-state reported counts

MT11
NH2
MA2

State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice.

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

40 days

Cadence

~1 / 13.3d

vs. multi-state median

5.0× slower

About this clustering

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