🦬Montana State AGFirst filing
Filed Feb 12, 2021bd_220cfd22a6850313
Ascentium Corp. reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2021-02-12. The breach occurred on 12/24/2020.
Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filing window Feb 12, 2021 → Apr 13, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_5199477ff5d640c5 · merge_method deterministic · confidence 95%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Time between earliest and latest filing
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Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
CA MT
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Dec 24, 2020
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Dec 24, 2020
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Ascentium Corp. reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2021-02-12. The breach occurred on 12/24/2020.
Ascentium Corporation dba SMITH experienced a ransomware attack on December 24, 2020, affecting servers containing legacy employee personal identifying information, including names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and payroll data. The company took affected servers offline immediately and engaged third-party IT security vendors. Affected individuals were offered two years of complimentary credit monitoring through Equifax.
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.