One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Aug 12, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_506eba80a9214be7 · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
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.
Identity (basic) · Government ID · Health (basic)
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Dec 23, 2019 → Jan 7, 2020
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Jan 7, 2020
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC reported a data breach involving unauthorized access to employee email accounts via stolen credentials. The incident, discovered on January 7, 2020, exposed names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and medical/insurance information. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.
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.