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Leak SiteState AGConfirmed4 filings · 3 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedblack_bastahigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 4 filings

North American Signs — February 2024 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Feb 28, 2024 May 20, 2024. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

3

Affected · reported

557

First → last filing

Feb 28, 2024 May 20, 2024

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_c74df62f463c48dc · merged by human · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 3 regulatory filings and 1 unverified claim. The filing describes hacking. Intrusion Feb 28, 2024, discovered Feb 28, 2024 — the first regulatory filing landed 56 days later. 557 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID and Identity (basic). Notifications rolled out on a 82-day schedule across 3 filings beginning Feb 28, 2024. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
56days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Leak precedence
56days before filing

Days between the first leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. Positive = the claim came first (public exposure before disclosure). Negative = the claim trailed the filing, so there was no pre-disclosure leak. Counts regulatory filings only — press coverage is not a regulatory disclosure.

Filing span
82days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Discovery variance · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.

Regulatory clocksLeak gap Leak >30dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Feb 28, 2024breach begins
Feb 28, 2024discovered
notification delay · 56 days
Apr 24, 2024first filing
May 20, 2024most 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. FEB 28Leak siteblack_basta postfirst filing · attacker claim · unverifiedday 0
  2. APR 24IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 557+56d
  3. APR 25MA AGMA AG notice1 MA residents+57d
  4. MAY 20NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 1 NH residents+82d
  5. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Feb 28, 2024
IN AG
Discovered
Feb 28, 2024
NH AG
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID
MA AG + NH 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)

557

Sum of filed state slices

351· 63.0% of stated

37% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US557
IN349
MA1
NH1

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 claim1 member

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing3 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
human
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Aug 22, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
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

82 days

Cadence

~1 / 27.3d

vs. multi-state median

10.3× 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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