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State AGConfirmed6 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

GODADDY.COM, LLC — September 2021 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 7, 2021 Nov 23, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

1,200,000

First → last filing

Nov 7, 2021 Nov 23, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_a7c9b12c2a4c4b0b · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Sep 6, 2021–Nov 7, 2021, discovered Nov 17, 2021. 1,200,000 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Credentials, PII, Authentication, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 16-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Nov 7, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
16days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksWashington WA AG ≤30dCalifornia CA 60-day OK · 0dMaine ME AG ≤30d · 6dOregon OR AG ≤45dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

authentication

Incident timeline

Sep 6, 2021breach begins
Nov 17, 2021discovered
Nov 7, 2021first filing
Nov 23, 2021most 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. NOV 7DE AGDE AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. NOV 22DE AGDE AG noticeno count stated+15d
  3. NOV 23WA AGWA AG noticestates nationwide total 1,200,000+16d
  4. NOV 23CA AGCA AG noticeno count stated+16d
  5. NOV 23ME AGME AG notice1,200,000 affected+16d
  6. NOV 23OR AGOR AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 1,200,000+16d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Sep 6, 2021
DE AG
Discovered
Nov 17, 2021· 72d undetected
DE AG + WA AG + CA AG +2
Data types
Authentication · Credentials · Identity (basic) · PII
DE AG + WA AG + CA AG
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
DE 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)

1,200,000

Sum of filed state slices

9,581· 0.8% of stated

99% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies

Leak-site claim

No leak-site claim on record for this incident.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing6 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 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

16 days

Cadence

~1 / 3.2d

vs. multi-state median

2.0× 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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