SmartStart Employment Screening, Inc. — May 2020 breach

Clustered 9 filings across 9 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 1, 2021 → Aug 27, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 1 cross-filing discrepancy →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

9 filings

States

Affected · reported

75,103

First → last filing

Jan 1, 2021 → Aug 27, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_a81d7107b49a4e07 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 9 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion May 13, 2020, discovered Dec 18, 2020 — the first regulatory filing landed 14 days later (flagged late). 75,103 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), and PII. Notifications rolled out on a 238-day schedule across 9 filings beginning Jan 1, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental

Notification delay

14days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance

0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span

238days

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.

Regulatory clocksWashington✗ WA AG >90dMaine✗ ME AG >90d · 252dCalifornia✗ CA 60-day late · 249dSouth Carolina✓ SC CRA notice dueMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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