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

Affected · reported

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.

No cross-filing comparison data available for this incident.

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