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State AGConfirmed9 filings · 7 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 9 filings

The Long & Foster Companies, Inc. — August 2020 breach

Clustered 9 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filing window Sep 15, 2020 Dec 7, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

9 filings

States

7

Affected · reported

85,212

First → last filing

Sep 15, 2020 Dec 7, 2020

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_5398733a87f0483f · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 9 regulatory filings. The filings describe a ransomware attack. Intrusion Aug 22, 2020, discovered Aug 22, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 24 days later (flagged late). 85,212 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 4 more. Notifications rolled out on a 83-day schedule across 9 filings beginning Sep 15, 2020. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
24days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
83days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksMaine ME AG >90d · 101dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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