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State AGConfirmed8 filings · 8 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 8 filings

CLAIRE'S STORES, INC. — April 2020 breach

Clustered 8 filings across 8 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 1, 2020 Jul 8, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

8 filings

States

8

Affected · reported

60,842

First → last filing

Jan 1, 2020 Jul 8, 2020

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_57b4f991ad6a41b0 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 8 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Apr 7, 2020–Jun 12, 2020, discovered Jun 11, 2020. 60,842 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Identity (basic), Financial account, Authentication, and 3 more. Notifications rolled out on a 189-day schedule across 8 filings beginning Jan 1, 2020. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Discovery variance
1days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
189days

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 clocksWashington WA AG ≤30dOregon OR AG ≤45dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

authenticationfinancial_credentials

Incident timeline

Apr 7, 2020breach begins
Jun 11, 2020discovered · members disagree
Jan 1, 2020first filing
Jul 8, 2020most 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. JAN 1IL AGIL AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. JUL 8IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 60,842+189d
  3. JUL 8WA AGWA AG notice1,166 WA residents+189d
  4. JUL 8MA AGMA AG notice1,656 MA residents+189d
  5. JUL 8CA AGCA AG noticeno count stated+189d
  6. JUL 8NH AGNH AG notice259 NH residents+189d
  7. JUL 8MT AGMT AG notice119 MT residents+189d
  8. JUL 8OR AGOR AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 60,842+189d
  9. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Apr 7, 2020
IN AG
Discovered
Jun 11, 2020IL AG + WA AG + NH AGJun 12, 2020CA AG + MT AG + OR AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Authentication · Credentials · Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI
WA AG + CA AG + NH AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
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)

60,842

Sum of filed state slices

4,457· 7.3% of stated

93% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US60,842
MA1,656
IN1,257
WA1,166
NH259
MT119

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 filing8 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

189 days

Cadence

~1 / 27d

vs. multi-state median

21.0× 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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