Clustered 3 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 16, 2018 → Nov 17, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_bf28aebd2a0f4ac2 · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
CA OR WA
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.
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Nov 1, 2018
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Nov 1, 2018
Reported by WASHINGTON AG, OREGON AG, CALIFORNIA AG filings
LPL Financial LLC, a finance sector entity reported a unclear/unknown incident to the Washington Attorney General. The organization became aware of the incident on 2018-11-01 and filed notice on 2018-11-16. 8,127 Washington residents were affected. 15 days elapsed between awareness and notification. 0 days to identify the breach. 0 days to contain the breach.
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.
Affected (this filing): 8,127
LPL Financial LLC reported a data breach to the Oregon Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2018-11-17. The breach occurred during 11/1/2018. The breach was discovered on 11/1/2018. 270,000 individuals were affected. Notice was sent on 11/17/2018.
Affected (this filing): 270,000
LPL Financial LLC notified clients of a data breach involving its service provider, Capital Forensics, Inc. On November 1, 2018, an unauthorized person accessed a Capital Forensics user account on a third-party file-sharing system. Files containing LPL client information, including names, account numbers, and Social Security Numbers, were potentially accessed. LPL coordinated with Capital Forensics to remove the data and implemented heightened monitoring. Affected individuals are offered two years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services.