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State AGConfirmed6 filings · 6 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

ABM INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED — January 2018 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Mar 12, 2019 → Mar 19, 2019. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

42,366

First → last filing

Mar 12, 2019 → Mar 19, 2019

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_4ca83b037c284c2c · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe a phishing attack. Intrusion Jan 8, 2018–Aug 7, 2018, discovered Jun 14, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 271 days later. 42,366 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Financial account, Health (basic), and 4 more. Notifications rolled out on a 7-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Mar 12, 2019. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
271days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
7days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksSouth Carolina✓ SC CRA notice dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentialsidentity_government

Incident timeline

Jan 8, 2018breach begins
Jun 14, 2018discovered
notification delay · 271 days
Mar 12, 2019first filing
Mar 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. MAR 12WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · 846 WA residentsday 0
  2. MAR 12CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  3. MAR 12MA AGMA AG notice1,171 MA residentsday 0
  4. MAR 12OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 42,366day 0
  5. MAR 18SC AGSC AG notice4,868 SC residents+6d
  6. MAR 19NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 23 NH residents+7d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jan 8, 2018 – Aug 7, 2018
WA AG
Discovered
Jun 14, 2018· 157d undetected
WA AG + SC AG + NH AG
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PHI · PII
WA AG + MA AG + NH AG +1
Attack vector
Phishing
WA 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)

42,366

Sum of filed state slices

6,908· 16.3% of stated

84% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US42,366
SC4,868
MA1,171
WA846
NH23

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 filing6 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
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Jun 12, 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

7 days

Cadence

~1 / 1.4d

vs. multi-state median

1.2× 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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