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.
Regulatory clocksCalifornia✓ CA 60-day OK · 22dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline
State AGConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
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Data types
2
Identity (basic) · Financial account
Jurisdictions
1
CA
Linked filings
1
all State AG
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Breach window
Sep 5, 2016 → Nov 11, 2016
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
McDavid, Inc. notified California AG that an external actor placed hidden code on its web servers between Sept 5 and Nov 11, 2016. Discovered April 6, 2017. Targeted customer PII and credit card data. McDavid engaged forensic investigators and is strengthening system controls.
CA 60-day OK · 22d
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.