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State AGConfirmed6 filings · 6 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

Smyser Kaplan & Veselka — September 2022 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Jun 5, 2023 Jul 10, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

8,432

First → last filing

Jun 5, 2023 Jul 10, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_573fb538c4b346c4 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Sep 26, 2022, discovered Sep 1, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 277 days later (flagged late). 8,432 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 35-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Jun 5, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
277days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
222days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
35days

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 clocksVermont VT AG >45 bdayMaine ME AG >30d · 85dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Sep 26, 2022breach begins
Sep 1, 2022discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 277 days
Jun 5, 2023first filing
Jul 10, 2023most recent filing

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. JUN 5VT AGVT AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. JUL 5MT AGMT AG notice10 MT residents+30d
  3. JUL 5ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 8,432+30d
  4. JUL 5MA AGMA AG notice11 MA residents+30d
  5. JUL 5IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 8,432+30d
  6. JUL 10NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 3 NH residents+35d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Sep 26, 2022
VT AG
Discovered
Sep 1, 2022VT AG + MT AG + NH AGApr 11, 2023ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
VT AG + MT AG + ME AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
VT 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)

8,432

Sum of filed state slices

35· 0.4% of stated

100% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US8,432
MA11
MT10
IN10
NH3
ME1

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

Leak-site claim

No leak-site claim on record for this incident.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing6 members

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

No SEC filing or victim statement yet.

Merge provenance

Method
deterministic
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
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

35 days

Cadence

~1 / 7d

vs. multi-state median

4.4× slower

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. This page states only what the linked filings agree on; each filing's own account stays on its own record, linked from the timeline below.

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