One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed May 28, 2015. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_72898ae515a7450a · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
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.
Government ID · Financial account
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Feb 22, 2015
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
May 8, 2015
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. reported a data security incident in Santa Ana, California, involving the theft of password-protected computers containing Social Security numbers and bank account information. The breach was discovered on May 8, 2015. No evidence of data access or use was found. The company engaged Kroll for identity theft protection and involved law enforcement.
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.