Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed Sep 1, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_8aca890ca58340e4 · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
ME WA
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.
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Sep 18, 2020
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Jul 29, 2022
Reported by WASHINGTON AG, MAINE AG filings
Vermont Nut Free Chocolates, a business sector entity reported a malware incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2022-07-29 and filed notice on 2022-09-01. 521 Washington residents were affected. 34 days elapsed between awareness and notification. 679 days to identify the breach. 0 days to contain the breach.
Affected (this filing): 521
Vermont Nut Free Chocolates experienced an external system breach, where an unauthorized party gained access to its systems. The breach, which occurred on September 18, 2020, was discovered on July 29, 2022. The compromised information includes names and financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers with their security codes. A total of 238 Maine residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 238
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. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.