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Leak SiteState AGConfirmed6 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedchaoshigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

IES Communications, LLC — March 2025 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Feb 19, 2025 → Jul 8, 2025. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

6,241

First → last filing

Feb 19, 2025 → Jul 8, 2025

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_9d175e19cd8049d2 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings and 1 unverified claim. The filings describe malware. Intrusion Mar 7, 2025, discovered Mar 17, 2025 — the first regulatory filing landed 108 days later (flagged late). 6,241 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 139-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Feb 19, 2025. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
108days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Leak precedence
134days before filing

Days between the first leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. Positive = the claim came first (public exposure before disclosure). Negative = the claim trailed the filing, so there was no pre-disclosure leak. Counts regulatory filings only — press coverage is not a regulatory disclosure.

Filing span
139days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksMaine✗ ME AG >90d · 112dTexas✗ TX AG >30dLeak gap⏱ Leak >90dIowa✓ IA AG ≤5 bdayFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Mar 7, 2025breach begins
Mar 17, 2025discovered
notification delay · 108 days
Jul 3, 2025first filing
Jul 8, 2025most 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. FEB 19Leak sitechaos postfirst filing · attacker claim · unverifiedday 0
  2. JUL 3IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 6,241+134d
  3. JUL 3NE AGNE AG noticeno count stated+134d
  4. JUL 7IA AGIA AG notice538 IA residents+138d
  5. JUL 7ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 6,241+138d
  6. JUL 8TX AGTX AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 6,241+139d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Mar 7, 2025
IN AG
Discovered
Mar 17, 2025· 10d undetected
NE AG + IA AG + ME AG +1
Data types
Employment · Financial account · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
NE AG + IA AG + ME AG +1
Attack vector
Ransomware
NE 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)

6,241

Sum of filed state slices

1,605· 25.7% of stated

74% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US6,241
TX1,061
IA538
IN5
ME1

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 claim1 member

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

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 6, 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

139 days

Cadence

~1 / 27.8d

vs. multi-state median

17.4× slower

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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