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State AGConfirmed8 filings · 8 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 8 filings

ACE HARDWARE CORPORATION — October 2023 breach

Clustered 8 filings across 8 jurisdictions · filed Apr 1, 2024. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

8 filings

States

8

Affected · reported

7,295

First → last filing

Apr 1, 2024

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_bbe8690777354b0f · merged by human · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 8 regulatory filings. Intrusion Oct 27, 2023–Oct 29, 2023, discovered Oct 29, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 155 days later (flagged late). 7,295 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), PII, and 1 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
155days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
136days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
0days

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 clocksVermont✗ VT AG >45 bdayCalifornia✗ CA 60-day late · 155dWashington✗ WA AG >90dMaine✓ ME AG ≤30d · 19dMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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Ace Hardware Corporation data breach (2023) — filings in 8 jurisdictions, April 2024 · DisclosureLens