Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed Jul 9, 2024. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_a70e6168bcf148fd · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
Identity (basic)
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.
CA VT
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Aug 15, 2023 → Sep 5, 2023
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Sep 5, 2023
Reported by VERMONT AG, CALIFORNIA AG filings
Kovack Financial notified consumers of a data breach where unauthorized parties accessed email accounts containing personal information (names) between August 15 and September 5, 2023. The incident was discovered on September 5, 2023. The company engaged external cybersecurity professionals and is offering complimentary identity defense services to affected individuals.
Kovack Financial reported that an unauthorized party gained access to certain email accounts. The company learned of the incident on September 5, 2023. Investigation revealed that files containing personal information (full name) may have been accessed and acquired between August 15, 2023, and September 5, 2023. The company engaged external cybersecurity professionals and is offering identity protection services 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.