Michigan State University — November 2016 breach
Clustered 7 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 18, 2016 → Dec 9, 2016. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_a57d816775294fd3 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
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.
Sensitive data
identity_governmentIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.
Member cascade — every filing about this breach
- NOV 18WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
- NOV 21MT AGMT AG notice460 MT residentsoperator-confirmed+3d
- NOV 22NH AGNH AG notice463 NH residentsauto-linked+4d
- NOV 28SC AGSC AG notice1,780 SC residentsauto-linked+10d
- NOV 29CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedauto-linked+11d
- NOV 30MA AGMA AG notice3,209 MA residentsauto-linked+12d
- DEC 9OR AGOR AG noticemost recent · no count statedoperator-confirmed+21d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Nov 13, 2016 WA AG
- Discovered
- Nov 13, 2016 WA AG + MT AG + NH AG +1
- Data types
- Education · Identity (basic) · Government ID WA AG + MT AG + NH AG +2
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access WA AG
Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.
Affected residents by state
per-state reported counts
State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice.
Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies
No leak-site claim on record for this incident.
No press coverage linked yet.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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
21 days
Cadence
~1 / 3.5d
vs. multi-state median
2.6× 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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