Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed May 12, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_9f4661b4c4ab4a6e · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
CA WA
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Apr 4, 2016 → Mar 1, 2017
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Mar 1, 2017
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Apr 24, 2017
Reported by WASHINGTON AG filing
Brooks Brothers notified California AG of a 2016-2017 payment card data breach at US and Puerto Rico retail locations. Malicious software captured card numbers, names, and CVVs. No SSNs affected. Incident resolved; forensic experts engaged.
Brooks Brothers, a business sector entity reported a skimmers incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2017-04-24 and filed notice on 2017-05-12. 18 days elapsed between awareness and notification. 385 days to identify the breach. 0 days to contain the breach.
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.