One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Oct 5, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_9cff599398f546f0 · 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.
Government ID · Identity (basic)
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Jul 31, 2021
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Aug 1, 2021 → Aug 31, 2021
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Synchrony Bank notified California regulators of a data security breach occurring in August 2021. Customer envelopes containing personal information, including names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and dates of birth, were erroneously mailed to unintended recipients. The bank implemented enhanced quality controls and offered one year of credit monitoring 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.