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.
State AGConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
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Data types
2
PCI · Financial account
Jurisdictions
1
CA
Linked filings
1
all State AG
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Breach window
Feb 16, 2014 → May 13, 2014
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Bartell Hotels disclosed that a third-party attacker compromised payment card processing systems at five San Diego locations between February 16, 2014, and May 13, 2014. The incident exposed credit card numbers and names. The company notified law enforcement and credit card brands, remediated the vulnerability, and offered credit monitoring services.
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.