Zacks Investment Research, Inc. — November 2021 breach
Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 24, 2023 → Feb 24, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_84b86f6d660a4ae0 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
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.
Sensitive data
authenticationIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.
Member cascade — every filing about this breach
- JAN 24WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · 18,815 WA residentsday 0
- JAN 24ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 820,000operator-confirmedday 0
- FEB 9CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedauto-linked+16d
- FEB 9VT AGVT AG noticeno count statedauto-linked+16d
- FEB 14OR AGOR AG noticeno count statedoperator-confirmed+21d
- FEB 24DE AGDE AG noticemost recent · no count statedauto-linked+31d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Nov 1, 2021 – Aug 31, 2022 WA AG
- Discovered
- Dec 28, 2022· 422d undetected WA AG + ME AG + CA AG +3
- Data types
- Authentication · Credentials · Identity (basic) WA AG + ME AG + CA AG +2
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access WA 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)
820,000
Sum of filed state slices
21,949· 2.7% of stated
97% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.
Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies
No leak-site claim on record for this incident.
No press coverage linked yet.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
No SEC filing or victim statement yet.
Merge provenance
- Method
- deterministic
- Confidence
- 1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
- Reviewed
- operator-reviewed Jun 12, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
- 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
31 days
Cadence
~1 / 6.2d
vs. multi-state median
3.9× slower
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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