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Merged incident · 6 filings

Sugar Steel Corporation — December 2020 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Sep 17, 2021 → Sep 21, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

6,276

First → last filing

Sep 17, 2021 → Sep 21, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_831e0336954d474b · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. Intrusion Dec 8, 2020–Dec 22, 2020, discovered Dec 22, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 269 days later (flagged late). 6,276 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, PII, and Identity (basic). Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
269days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
4days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksCalifornia✗ CA 60-day late · 269dMaine⏱ ME AG >30d · 269dMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Dec 8, 2020breach begins
Dec 22, 2020discovered
notification delay · 269 days
Sep 17, 2021first filing
Sep 21, 2021most recent filing

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

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. SEP 17MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 6 MT residentsday 0
  2. SEP 17ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 6,276day 0
  3. SEP 17IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 6,276day 0
  4. SEP 17CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  5. SEP 17MA AGMA AG notice16 MA residentsday 0
  6. SEP 21NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 26 NH residents+4d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Dec 8, 2020 – Dec 22, 2020
MT AG
Discovered
Dec 22, 2020· 14d undetected
MT AG + ME AG + CA AG +1
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
MT AG + ME AG + CA AG +2
Attack vector
Phishing
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)

6,276

Sum of filed state slices

345· 5.5% of stated

95% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US6,276
IN295
NH26
MA16
MT6
ME2

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 filing6 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

4 days

Cadence

~1 / 0.8d

vs. multi-state median

1.5× 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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Sugar Steel Corporation data breach (2020) — filings in 6 jurisdictions, September 2021 · DisclosureLens