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State AGConfirmed5 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

Garfield & Hecht — October 2021 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 10, 2022 Nov 21, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

14,632

First → last filing

Nov 10, 2022 Nov 21, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_c1a475820c404405 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Oct 31, 2021–Nov 14, 2021, discovered Nov 14, 2021 — the first regulatory filing landed 361 days later. 14,632 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 11-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Nov 10, 2022. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
361days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
352days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
11days

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 clocksMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueMaine ME AG ≤30d · 14dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Oct 31, 2021breach begins
Nov 14, 2021discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 361 days
Nov 10, 2022first filing
Nov 21, 2022most 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 10MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 33 MT residentsday 0
  2. NOV 11IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 14,632+1d
  3. NOV 15MA AGMA AG notice27 MA residents+5d
  4. NOV 15ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 14,632+5d
  5. NOV 21NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 5 NH residents+11d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Oct 31, 2021Nov 14, 2021
MT AG
Discovered
Nov 14, 2021MT AGNov 1, 2022ME AG + NH AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI
MT AG + ME AG + MA AG +1
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
MT 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)

14,632

Sum of filed state slices

88· 0.6% of stated

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

US14,632
MT33
MA27
IN19
NH5
ME4

State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice. The gray US row is the nationwide total reported in a linked filing.

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 filing5 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
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

11 days

Cadence

~1 / 2.8d

vs. multi-state median

1.4× 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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