Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
State AGConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
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Data types
2
Identity (basic) · Government ID
Jurisdictions
1
CA
Linked filings
1
all State AG
Sensitive data
identity_government
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Breach window
Dec 8, 2018
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
David B. Cheatham, CPA reported the theft of a password-protected computer hard drive from its office on December 8, 2018. The drive contained client tax documents including names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security Numbers. The firm notified law enforcement and the IRS, changed system passwords, and offered credit monitoring to affected clients.
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.