One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Mar 28, 2016. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_4b8a5098d0c9404a · merge_method deterministic
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Mar 14, 2016
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Sprouts Farmers Market reported a data security breach to the California Attorney General. The incident occurred on March 14, 2016. The attached notice is titled 'Notice to Employees,' suggesting employee data may have been involved, but the provided text content of the attachment is empty, preventing extraction of specific data types, counts, or attack vectors.
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. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.