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State AGConfirmed5 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

Newton Public Schools — March 2023 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Mar 15, 2024 Mar 21, 2024. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

10,550

First → last filing

Mar 15, 2024 Mar 21, 2024

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_9a935a9100734663 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. Intrusion Mar 23, 2023, discovered Mar 28, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 353 days later. 10,550 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Health (basic), and 3 more. Notifications rolled out on a 6-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Mar 15, 2024. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
353days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
328days

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 clocksMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueMaine ME AG ≤30d · 30dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentialsidentity_government

Incident timeline

Mar 23, 2023breach begins
Mar 28, 2023discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 353 days
Mar 15, 2024first filing
Mar 21, 2024most 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. MAR 15IN AGIN AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 10,545day 0
  2. MAR 15MT AGMT AG notice3 MT residentsday 0
  3. MAR 15MA AGMA AG notice2 MA residentsday 0
  4. MAR 20ME AGME AG notice10,545 affected+5d
  5. MAR 21NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 2 NH residents+6d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Mar 23, 2023
IN AG
Discovered
Mar 28, 2023NH AGFeb 19, 2024ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI
MT AG + ME AG + NH AG +1
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
ME 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)

10,545

Sum of filed state slices

16· 0.2% of stated

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

US10,545
IN9
MT3
MA2
NH2

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 filing5 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
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Jun 12, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
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 / 1.5d

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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