Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filing window Sep 29, 2017 → Nov 15, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_8adcb26c508e4c6c · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
CA MT
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Jul 21, 2017
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Jul 21, 2017
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Cheddar's Casual Cafe reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2017-09-29. The breach occurred on 7/21/2017. 43 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 43
Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen experienced a physical break-in at a corporate facility in Texas on July 21, 2017, resulting in the theft of laptops and a hard drive. The stolen devices contained personal information of team members, including Social Security numbers, contact information, and employment records, as well as limited guest information. The company contacted law enforcement and is offering identity theft protection services to affected individuals.
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.