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State AGConfirmed7 filings · 7 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 7 filings

Eddie Bauer — January 2016 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filing window Aug 18, 2016 Aug 19, 2016. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

7

Affected · reported

2,192,422

First → last filing

Aug 18, 2016 Aug 19, 2016

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_87b44f9e83094b39 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings. Intrusion Jan 2, 2016–Jul 17, 2016, discovered Jul 15, 2016 — the first regulatory filing landed 34 days later. 2,192,422 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: PCI, Financial account, Identity (basic), and 1 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
34days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
27days

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 delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksOregon OR AG ≤45dSouth Carolina SC CRA notice dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentials

Incident timeline

Jan 2, 2016breach begins
Jul 15, 2016discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 34 days
Aug 18, 2016first filing
Aug 19, 2016most 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. AUG 18WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · 73,508 WA residentsday 0
  2. AUG 18CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  3. AUG 18NH AGNH AG notice7,998 NH residentsday 0
  4. AUG 18OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 2,192,422day 0
  5. AUG 19SC AGSC AG notice9,780 SC residents+1d
  6. AUG 19MA AGMA AG notice33,450 MA residents+1d
  7. AUG 19MT AGMT AG noticemost recent · 8,492 MT residents+1d
  8. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jan 2, 2016Jul 17, 2016
WA AG
Discovered
Jul 15, 2016WA AG + OR AGAug 11, 2016NH AG + SC AG + MT AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI
WA AG + CA AG + MA AG +3
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
CA 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)

2,192,422

Sum of filed state slices

133,228· 6.1% of stated

94% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US2,192,422
WA73,508
MA33,450
SC9,780
MT8,492
NH7,998

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 filing7 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
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

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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