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HHS OCRState AGConfirmed4 filings · 4 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 4 filings

Valley Hope — October 2018 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 18, 2019 Jan 24, 2019. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

70,799

First → last filing

Jan 18, 2019 Jan 24, 2019

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_8bba38dd31bf4333 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings. Intrusion Oct 9, 2018–Oct 10, 2018, discovered Oct 10, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 100 days later. 70,799 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, PII, Identity (basic), and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 6-day schedule across 4 filings beginning Jan 18, 2019. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
100days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
6days

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 clocksHIPAA HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Oct 9, 2018breach begins
Oct 10, 2018discovered
notification delay · 100 days
Jan 18, 2019first filing
Jan 24, 2019most 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. JAN 18MA AGMA AG noticefirst filing · 38 MA residentsday 0
  2. JAN 18MT AGMT AG notice49 MT residentsday 0
  3. JAN 18HHS OCRHHS OCR noticestates nationwide total 70,799day 0
  4. JAN 24NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 25 NH residents+6d
  5. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Oct 9, 2018Oct 10, 2018
MT AG
Discovered
Oct 10, 2018· 1d undetected
MT AG + NH AG
Data types
Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PHI · PII
MA AG + HHS OCR + NH AG +1
Attack vector
Phishing
MT 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)

70,799

Sum of filed state slices

112· 0.2% of stated

100% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US70,799
MT49
MA38
NH25

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 filing4 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
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

6 days

Cadence

~1 / 2d

vs. multi-state median

1.3× 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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