Confirmed breach. Intrusion Oct 11, 2021, discovered Nov 17, 2021 — the first regulatory filing landed 34 days later. 13,282 individuals reported across the linked filings.
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Regulatory clocksMaine⏱ ME AG >30d · 34dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline
State AGConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedlow sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
13,282
Data types
1
PII
Jurisdictions
1
ME
Linked filings
1
all State AG
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Breach window
Oct 11, 2021
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
GA West & Co., Inc. reported an external system breach (hacking) occurring on 10/11/2021 and discovered on 11/17/2021. The incident affected up to 13,282 individuals, including potentially 2 Maine residents. The company provided written notification and offered 1 year of complimentary credit monitoring through Epiq.
Affected (this filing): 13,282
ME AG >30d · 34d
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.