Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filing window Sep 16, 2021 → Oct 21, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_83762a8af45443a4 · merge_method human · confidence 100%
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
ME MT
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Jul 22, 2021
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
American Welding & Gas Inc. reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2021-09-16. The breach occurred from 7/22/2021 to 7/28/2021. 77 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 77
Sep 22, 2021
Reported by MAINE AG filing
American Welding & Gas, Inc. experienced an external system breach (hacking) that occurred between July 22, 2021, and July 28, 2021. The breach was discovered on September 22, 2021. The compromised information includes names and Social Security Numbers, affecting a total of 439 individuals. The company provided written notification to affected consumers on October 21, 2021, and offered 12 months of identity monitoring and restoration services through Experian.
Affected (this filing): 439
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.