One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Jul 10, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_6385be02348347d7 · merge_method deterministic
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Identity (basic) · Government ID · Financial account
SC
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2019
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC notified South Carolina residents of two data security incidents involving the improper disposal of computer equipment. In 2016, decommissioned devices contained unencrypted data. In 2019, a replaced server's encrypted disks contained residual data due to a software flaw. Morgan Stanley stated no unauthorized access was detected but offered 24 months of credit monitoring via Experian.
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.