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

Welders Supply — November 2018 breach

Clustered 3 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 9, 2019 → Jan 16, 2019. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

3 filings

States

3

Affected · reported

41

First → last filing

Jan 9, 2019 → Jan 16, 2019

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_6d8963af3e0f4451 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 3 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Nov 14, 2018–Dec 6, 2018, discovered Dec 3, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 37 days later. 41 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: PII, Financial account, Identity (basic), and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 7-day schedule across 3 filings beginning Jan 9, 2019. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
37days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
3days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
7days

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.

Sensitive data

financial_credentials

Incident timeline

Nov 14, 2018breach begins
Dec 3, 2018discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 37 days
Jan 9, 2019first filing
Jan 16, 2019most 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 9MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 8 MT residentsday 0
  2. JAN 10NH AGNH AG notice18 NH residents+1d
  3. JAN 16MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 15 MA residents+7d
  4. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Nov 14, 2018 – Dec 6, 2018
MT AG
Discovered
Dec 3, 2018MT AGDec 6, 2018NH AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI · PII
MT AG + NH AG + MA AG
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
MT AG

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

Affected residents by state

per-state reported counts

NH18
MA15
MT8

State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice.

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

7 days

Cadence

~1 / 3.5d

vs. multi-state median

1.1× faster

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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