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State AGConfirmed3 filings · 3 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 3 filings

Vermont Nut Free Chocolates — September 2020 breach

Clustered 3 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filed Sep 1, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

3 filings

States

3

Affected · reported

26,219

First → last filing

Sep 1, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_8aca890ca58340e4 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 3 regulatory filings. Intrusion Sep 18, 2020–Feb 3, 2022, discovered Jul 29, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 34 days later. 26,219 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Identity (basic), Financial account, Financial credentials, and 1 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
34days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
0days

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 clocksWashington WA AG >30dMaine ME AG >30d · 34dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentials

Incident timeline

Sep 18, 2020breach begins
Jul 29, 2022discovered
notification delay · 34 days
Sep 1, 2022first filing
watching for filings

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. SEP 1WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · 521 WA residentsday 0
  2. SEP 1ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 26,219day 0
  3. SEP 1MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 2,686 MA residentsday 0
  4. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Sep 18, 2020Feb 3, 2022
WA AG
Discovered
Jul 29, 2022· 679d undetected
WA AG + ME AG
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI
WA AG + ME AG + MA AG
Attack vector
Third-Party / Supply Chain
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)

26,219

Sum of filed state slices

3,445· 13.1% of stated

87% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US26,219
MA2,686
WA521
ME238

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 filing3 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

0 days

Cadence

~1 / 0d

vs. multi-state median

20.0× 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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