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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.

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