One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Oct 15, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_930e7d71fa844540 · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
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.
PII · Credentials
SC
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Jun 1, 2018 → Aug 1, 2018
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Aug 22, 2018
Reported by SOUTH CAROLINA AG filing
SHEIN notified customers of a data breach affecting approximately 6.42 million individuals. The incident, occurring between June and August 2018, involved unauthorized access to customer email addresses and encrypted passwords. SHEIN engaged forensic investigators, removed malware, closed backdoors, and offered one year of identity theft monitoring.
Affected (this filing): 6,420,000
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.