One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Nov 17, 2016. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_7f3f6e2281f841cf · merge_method deterministic
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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.
Credentials · PII
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
QVC, Inc. disclosed a data breach where a technical misconfiguration caused tracking technology to unintentionally send customer email addresses and passwords to online marketing partners. QVC corrected the setting, suspended data transmission, deleted passwords, and credited affected accounts $10. No specific count of affected individuals was provided in the filing.
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.