Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed Feb 28, 2024. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_5849579bb0854615 · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
CA IN
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Apr 25, 2023
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Apr 26, 2023
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Institute of Food Technologists reported a data breach to the Indiana Attorney General. The breach occurred on 2023-04-25 and was reported on 2024-02-28. 28 Indiana residents were affected. 4,945 individuals affected in total.
Affected (this filing): 4,945
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) discovered a network security incident on April 26, 2023. Forensic investigation determined that between April 25 and April 26, 2023, files containing personal information, including full names and Social Security Numbers, were stored in impacted systems and may have been subject to unauthorized access or acquisition. IFT engaged external cybersecurity professionals and is providing credit monitoring services to affected individuals.
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.