Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Mar 15, 2016 → Apr 14, 2016. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_602a2365d2a840ff · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
CA MT OR WA
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.
all State AG
per-filing reported counts
State AGs report only their own residents; bars show per-filing counts.
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Mar 7, 2016
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Mar 7, 2016
Reported by WASHINGTON AG, CALIFORNIA AG filings
Advance Auto Parts, a business sector entity reported a phishing incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2016-03-07 and filed notice on 2016-03-15. 544 Washington residents were affected. 8 days elapsed between awareness and notification. 0 days to identify the breach. 0 days to contain the breach.
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.
Affected (this filing): 544
On March 7, 2016, Advance Auto Parts experienced a phishing attack where an external party posing as an employee tricked an internal employee into providing a file containing employee information. The data exposed included names, Social Security numbers, 2015 gross wages, and tax states. The company notified federal law enforcement and offered 24 months of identity protection services via AllClear ID. The incident affected current and former employees.
Advance Auto Parts reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2016-03-17. The breach occurred on 3/7/2016. 376 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 376
Advance Auto Parts reported a data breach to the Oregon Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2016-04-14. The breach occurred during 3/7/2016. 530 individuals were affected. Notice was sent on 3/16/2016.
Affected (this filing): 530