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State AGConfirmed6 filings · 6 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners — October 2024 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Jul 7, 2025 → Jul 8, 2025. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

28,018

First → last filing

Jul 7, 2025 → Jul 8, 2025

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_85bbe5a8f92c471a · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Oct 31, 2024–Nov 27, 2024, discovered Nov 27, 2024 — the first regulatory filing landed 222 days later (flagged late). 28,018 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), and Credentials. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
222days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
1days

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 clocksVermont✗ VT AG >45 bdayMaine✗ ME AG >90d · 223dMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Oct 31, 2024breach begins
Nov 27, 2024discovered
notification delay · 222 days
Jul 7, 2025first filing
Jul 8, 2025most 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. JUL 7VT AGVT AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. JUL 8NE AGNE AG notice8 NE residents+1d
  3. JUL 8MA AGMA AG notice22 MA residents+1d
  4. JUL 8IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 28,018+1d
  5. JUL 8NH AGNH AG notice4 NH residents+1d
  6. JUL 8ME AGME AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 28,018+1d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Oct 31, 2024 – Nov 27, 2024
VT AG
Discovered
Nov 27, 2024· 27d undetected
VT AG + NE AG + NH AG +1
Data types
Credentials · Identity (basic) · Government ID
VT AG + NE AG + NH AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
VT 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)

28,018

Sum of filed state slices

74· 0.3% of stated

100% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US28,018
IN32
MA22
NE8
ME8
NH4

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

1 days

Cadence

~1 / 0.2d

vs. multi-state median

8.0× 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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