The Washington Post — July 2025 breach
Clustered 15 filings across 12 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 7, 2025 → Jul 14, 2026. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_755b248a35404581 · merged by human · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
SupplementalDiscovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
Days between the first leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. Positive = the claim came first (public exposure before disclosure). Negative = the claim trailed the filing, so there was no pre-disclosure leak. Counts regulatory filings only — press coverage is not a regulatory disclosure.
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no SEC 8-K in this cluster.
Sensitive data
identity_governmentIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.
Member cascade — every filing about this breach
- NOV 7Leak sitecl0p postfirst filing · attacker claim · unverifiedoperator-confirmedday 0
- NOV 12IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 9,720auto-linked+4d
- NOV 12MT AGMT AG notice33 MT residents+4d
- NOV 12CA AGCA AG noticestates nationwide total 9,562auto-linked+4d
- NOV 12NE AGNE AG notice13 NE residentsoperator-confirmed+4d
- NOV 12MA AGMA AG notice1,256 MA residentsoperator-confirmed+4d
- NOV 12NH AGNH AG noticestates nationwide total 9,562auto-linked+4d
- NOV 12VT AGVT AG notice9,562 affectedauto-linked+4d
- NOV 12ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 9,720operator-confirmed+4d
- JUL 13VT AGVT AG notice172 VT residentsoperator-confirmed+247d
- JUL 13WA AGWA AG notice514 WA residentsoperator-confirmed+247d
- JUL 13NH AGNH AG notice102 NH residentsauto-linked+247d
- JUL 13CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedoperator-confirmed+247d
- JUL 14OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 323operator-confirmed+248d
- JUL 14TX AGTX AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 36,358operator-confirmed+248d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Jul 10, 2025 IN AG
- Discovered
- Sep 29, 2025NE AG + NH AG + WA AG +1Oct 1, 2025NH AG + CA AGOct 27, 2025MT AG + CA AG + VT AG +1Jun 10, 2026TX AGfilings disagree on discovery
- Data types
- Employment · Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI · PHI · PII MT AG + CA AG + NE AG +6
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access MT 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)
36,358
Sum of filed state slices
3,028· 8.3% of stated
92% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.
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
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
No press coverage linked yet.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
No SEC filing or victim statement yet.
Merge provenance
- Method
- human
- Confidence
- 1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
- Reviewed
- operator-reviewed Aug 23, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
- 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
248 days
Cadence
~1 / 17.7d
vs. multi-state median
31.0× slower
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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