Defender Industries, Inc. — November 2020 breach
Clustered 8 filings across 8 jurisdictions · filed May 21, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_539496a1ff28418d · 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
- MAY 21WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · 1,208 WA residentsday 0
- MAY 21CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedoperator-confirmedday 0
- MAY 21MA AGMA AG notice2,638 MA residentsauto-linkedday 0
- MAY 21NH AGNH AG notice371 NH residentsauto-linkedday 0
- MAY 21ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 34,089auto-linkedday 0
- MAY 21OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 34,089operator-confirmedday 0
- MAY 21IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 34,545auto-linkedday 0
- MAY 21MT AGMT AG noticemost recent · 63 MT residentsoperator-confirmedday 0
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Nov 22, 2020 – Apr 15, 2021 WA AG
- Discovered
- Apr 15, 2021· 144d undetected WA AG + CA AG + NH AG +3
- Data types
- Credentials · Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI · PII WA AG + MT AG + CA AG +3
- Attack vector
- Ransomware 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)
34,545
Sum of filed state slices
4,977· 14.4% of stated
86% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.
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
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
0 days
Cadence
~1 / 0d
vs. multi-state median
20.0× faster
About this clustering
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