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Leak SiteState AGConfirmed7 filings · 6 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedakirahigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 7 filings

Mercer University — February 2023 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filing window May 9, 2023 → May 26, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

93,512

First → last filing

May 9, 2023 → May 26, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_5c48d026f5864c80 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings and 1 unverified claim. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Feb 12, 2023–Feb 24, 2023, discovered Apr 5, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 49 days later. 93,512 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), and PII. Notifications rolled out on a 17-day schedule across 6 filings beginning May 9, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
49days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
25days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Leak precedence
15days before filing

Days between the first leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. Positive = the claim came first (public exposure before disclosure). Negative = the claim trailed the filing, so there was no pre-disclosure leak. Counts regulatory filings only — press coverage is not a regulatory disclosure.

Filing span
17days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksLeak gap⏱ Leak >30dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Feb 12, 2023breach begins
Apr 5, 2023discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 49 days
May 24, 2023first filing
May 26, 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. MAY 9Leak siteakira postfirst filing · attacker claim · unverifiedday 0
  2. MAY 24ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 93,512+15d
  3. MAY 24MA AGMA AG notice168 MA residents+15d
  4. MAY 24IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 93,512+15d
  5. MAY 24MT AGMT AG notice15 MT residents+15d
  6. MAY 25NH AGNH AG notice37 NH residents+16d
  7. MAY 26SC AGSC AG noticemost recent · 1,182 SC residents+17d
  8. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Feb 12, 2023 – Feb 24, 2023
ME AG
Discovered
Apr 5, 2023MT AG + NH AG + SC AGApr 30, 2023ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
ME AG + MA AG + MT AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
ME 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)

93,512

Sum of filed state slices

1,512· 1.6% of stated

98% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US93,512
SC1,182
MA168
IN89
NH37
ME21
MT15

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 claim1 member

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

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
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Jun 24, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
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

17 days

Cadence

~1 / 2.8d

vs. multi-state median

2.1× 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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