Plow and Hearth, LLC — February 2016 breach
Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Feb 25, 2017 → Apr 11, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_4cdfdd4b4e6347b1 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
SupplementalDiscovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
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.
Sensitive data
financial_credentialsIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.
Member cascade — every filing about this breach
- FEB 25WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · 1,274 WA residentsday 0
- MAR 10OR AGOR AG noticeno count statedoperator-confirmed+13d
- MAR 14MT AGMT AG notice345 MT residentsauto-linked+17d
- APR 11HI AGHI AG noticemost recent · 1,834 HI residentsauto-linked+45d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Feb 26, 2016 – Dec 5, 2016 WA AG
- Discovered
- Nov 1, 2016HI AGNov 6, 2016WA AGFeb 6, 2017OR AG + MT AGfilings disagree on discovery
- Data types
- Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI · PII WA AG + MT AG + HI AG
- Attack vector
- Ransomware WA 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
State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice.
Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies
No leak-site claim on record for this incident.
No press coverage linked yet.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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
45 days
Cadence
~1 / 15d
vs. multi-state median
5.6× 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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