ANDREWS MCMEEL UNIVERSAL — November 2022 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 23, 2023 → Mar 22, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

Affected · reported

5,256

First → last filing

Jan 23, 2023 → Mar 22, 2023

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_c63f2eaf92a04681 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Nov 17, 2022–Nov 19, 2022, discovered Nov 19, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 65 days later. 5,256 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, PII, Identity (basic), and 5 more. Notifications rolled out on a 58-day schedule across 7 filings beginning Jan 23, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental

Notification delay

65days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance

93days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span

58days

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 clocksMaine✓ ME AG ≤30d · 19dMassachusetts✓ MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

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