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State AGConfirmed4 filings · 4 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 4 filings

Patterson-Schwartz & Associates, Inc. — May 2025 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filed Nov 6, 2025. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

1,735

First → last filing

Nov 6, 2025

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_7b70146a636d4c14 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings. The filings describe a phishing attack. Intrusion May 14, 2025–May 29, 2025, discovered May 29, 2025 — the first regulatory filing landed 161 days later (flagged late). 1,735 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, PCI, Financial account, and 1 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
161days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Filing span
0days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.

Regulatory clocksMaine ME AG >90d · 161dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

May 14, 2025breach begins
May 29, 2025discovered
notification delay · 161 days
Nov 6, 2025first filing
watching for filings

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. NOV 6MA AGMA AG noticefirst filing · 8 MA residentsday 0
  2. NOV 6ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 1,735day 0
  3. NOV 6NH AGNH AG noticestates nationwide total 1,531day 0
  4. NOV 6IN AGIN AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 1,735day 0
  5. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
May 14, 2025May 29, 2025
ME AG
Discovered
May 29, 2025· 15d undetected
ME AG
Data types
Financial account · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI
MA AG + ME AG + NH AG
Attack vector
Phishing
ME 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)

1,735

Sum of filed state slices

13· 0.7% of stated

99% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US1,735
MA8
NH2
IN2
ME1

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

Leak-site claim

No leak-site claim on record for this incident.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing4 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

0 days

Cadence

~1 / 0d

vs. multi-state median

20.0× 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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