Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Jun 5, 2023 → Jul 10, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_573fb538c4b346c4 · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
Identity (basic) · Government ID · Financial account
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.
ME MT NH VT
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Sep 1, 2022
Reported by VERMONT AG filing
Sep 26, 2022
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Apr 11, 2023
Reported by MAINE AG filing
Smyser Kaplan & Veselka notified consumers of a September 2022 data breach where an unauthorized actor accessed the network and acquired documents. The investigation confirmed access to names and potentially government IDs and financial account numbers. The firm reported the incident to the FBI, engaged forensic specialists, and offered credit monitoring services.
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.
Smyser Kaplan & Veselka reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2023-07-05. The breach occurred on 9/26/2022. 10 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 10
The law firm Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. reported a data breach affecting 8,432 individuals, including one resident of Maine. The breach, which occurred on September 26, 2022, and was discovered on April 11, 2023, was the result of an external system breach (hacking). The compromised information included names and Social Security numbers. The firm began notifying affected individuals on July 5, 2023, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring services through Equifax.
Affected (this filing): 1
State AG filing for Smyser Kaplan & Veselka in New Hampshire. The source attachment contains only page markers with no extractable narrative text. No breach details, dates, or data types could be extracted.