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State AGConfirmed3 filings · 3 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Merged incident · 3 filings

ALM MEDIA, LLC — March 2021 breach

Clustered 3 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 28, 2022 Feb 14, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

3 filings

States

3

Affected · reported

961

First → last filing

Jan 28, 2022 Feb 14, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_67ec5d716fde4636 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 3 regulatory filings. The filing describes a ransomware attack. Intrusion Mar 31, 2021–May 12, 2021, discovered Jan 4, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 24 days later. 961 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Financial account and Identity (basic). Notifications rolled out on a 17-day schedule across 3 filings beginning Jan 28, 2022. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
24days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Filing span
17days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.

Incident timeline

Mar 31, 2021breach begins
Jan 4, 2022discovered
notification delay · 24 days
Jan 28, 2022first filing
Feb 14, 2022most 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. JAN 28MA AGMA AG noticefirst filing · 21 MA residentsday 0
  2. JAN 28IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 961day 0
  3. FEB 14NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 1 NH residents+17d
  4. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Mar 31, 2021
IN AG
Discovered
Jan 4, 2022· 279d undetected
NH AG
Data types
Financial account · Identity (basic)
MA AG + NH AG
Attack vector
Ransomware
NH 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)

961

Sum of filed state slices

25· 2.6% of stated

97% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US961
MA21
IN3
NH1

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 filing3 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

17 days

Cadence

~1 / 8.5d

vs. multi-state median

2.1× slower

About this clustering

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