Academy of Art University — March 2016 breach
Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Apr 12, 2016 → Apr 14, 2016. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_8798cb805e8d48df · 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
identity_governmentIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.
Member cascade — every filing about this breach
- APR 12NH AGNH AG noticefirst filing · 1 NH residentsauto-linkedday 0
- APR 13CA AGCA AG noticeno count stated+1d
- APR 13MT AGMT AG notice3 MT residentsauto-linked+1d
- APR 14MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 7 MA residentsauto-linked+2d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Mar 4, 2016 NH AG
- Discovered
- Apr 5, 2016· 32d undetected NH AG + MT AG
- Data types
- Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII NH AG + MT AG + MA AG
- Attack vector
- Phishing NH AG
Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.
Affected residents by state
per-state reported counts
State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice.
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
- 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
2 days
Cadence
~1 / 0.7d
vs. multi-state median
4.0× 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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