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Leak SiteState AGConfirmed5 filings · 4 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedakirahigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

Penny Publications — August 2023 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Aug 28, 2023 Nov 6, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

372

First → last filing

Aug 28, 2023 Nov 6, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_8230ee34c0774720 · merged by human · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings and 1 unverified claim. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Aug 3, 2023–Aug 8, 2023, discovered Aug 3, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 92 days later (flagged late). 372 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 70-day schedule across 4 filings beginning Aug 28, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
92days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
5days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Leak precedence
67days before filing

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.

Filing span
70days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksVermont VT AG >45 bdayMaine ME AG >90d · 95dLeak gap Leak >30dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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