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State AGConfirmed3 filings · 3 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 3 filings

Sand Companies, Inc. — April 2020 breach

Clustered 3 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filed Aug 11, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

3 filings

States

3

Affected · reported

554

First → last filing

Aug 11, 2020

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_49955e833db14c19 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 3 regulatory filings. The filing describes a phishing attack. Intrusion Apr 15, 2020–Apr 16, 2020, discovered Jun 19, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 53 days later. 554 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, PII, and Identity (basic). Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
53days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Filing span
0days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Apr 15, 2020breach begins
Jun 19, 2020discovered
notification delay · 53 days
Aug 11, 2020first filing
watching for filings

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. AUG 11IN AGIN AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 554day 0
  2. AUG 11MT AGMT AG notice20 MT residentsday 0
  3. AUG 11MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 1 MA residentsday 0
  4. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Apr 15, 2020
IN AG
Discovered
Jun 19, 2020· 65d undetected
MT AG
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
MT AG + MA AG
Attack vector
Phishing
MT AG

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

Count reconciliation

per-state reported counts

Nationwide (stated in a filing)

554

Sum of filed state slices

36· 6.5% of stated

94% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US554
MT20
IN15
MA1

State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice. The gray US row is the nationwide total reported in a linked filing.

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 filing3 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

0 days

Cadence

~1 / 0d

vs. multi-state median

20.0× faster

About this clustering

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