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HHS OCRState AGConfirmed6 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

Pioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC — November 2021 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window May 19, 2023 May 31, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

36,275

First → last filing

May 19, 2023 May 31, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_5e15e3a918ff41f7 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. Intrusion Nov 13, 2021–Nov 15, 2021, discovered Mar 3, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 442 days later (flagged late). 36,275 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, PII, Identity (basic), and 5 more. Notifications rolled out on a 12-day schedule across 6 filings beginning May 19, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
442days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
12days

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 bdayMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueHIPAA HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Nov 13, 2021breach begins
Mar 3, 2022discovered
notification delay · 442 days
May 19, 2023first filing
May 31, 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 19IN AGIN AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 36,275day 0
  2. MAY 22VT AGVT AG noticeno count stated+3d
  3. MAY 22MA AGMA AG notice33,875 MA residents+3d
  4. MAY 22MT AGMT AG notice4 MT residents+3d
  5. MAY 26HHS OCRHHS OCR noticestates nationwide total 36,275+7d
  6. MAY 31NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 350 NH residents+12d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Nov 13, 2021
IN AG
Discovered
Mar 3, 2022· 110d undetected
VT AG + MT AG + NH AG
Data types
Credentials · Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI · PHI · PII
VT AG + MT AG + NH AG +2
Attack vector
Third-Party / Supply Chain
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)

36,275

Sum of filed state slices

34,243· 94.4% of stated

6% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US36,275
MA33,875
NH350
IN14
MT4

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

12 days

Cadence

~1 / 2.4d

vs. multi-state median

1.5× 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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