One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Aug 23, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_bf04e16e6a2043dd · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Financial account
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Nov 3, 2017 → Jan 2, 2018
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Aug 16, 2018
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen experienced a cyberattack between November 3, 2017, and January 2, 2018, resulting in unauthorized access to payment card information. The incident affected customers in 23 states. The company engaged a third-party cybersecurity firm, disabled the compromised network, and offered 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.