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State AGConfirmed6 filings · 6 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

SM ENERGY COMPANY — May 2026 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Jul 30, 2026 Aug 6, 2026. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

40,109

First → last filing

Jul 30, 2026 Aug 6, 2026

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_cde7bc53bb75411b · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 6 regulatory filings. The filings describe hacking. Intrusion May 15, 2026–May 19, 2026, discovered Jun 30, 2026 — the first regulatory filing landed 30 days later. 40,109 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID and Identity (basic). Notifications rolled out on a 7-day schedule across 6 filings beginning Jul 30, 2026. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
30days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
7days

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 clocksOregon OR AG ≤45dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

May 15, 2026breach begins
Jun 30, 2026discovered
notification delay · 30 days
Jul 30, 2026first filing
Aug 6, 2026most 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. JUL 30OR AGOR AG noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 40,109day 0
  2. JUL 30CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  3. JUL 31VT AGVT AG notice9 VT residents+1d
  4. JUL 31TX AGTX AG noticestates nationwide total 40,109+1d
  5. JUL 31MA AGMA AG notice71 MA residents+1d
  6. AUG 6NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 15 NH residents+7d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
May 15, 2026May 19, 2026
OR AG
Discovered
Jun 30, 2026· 46d undetected
OR AG + TX AG
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID
CA AG + TX AG + MA AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
CA 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)

40,109

Sum of filed state slices

3,946· 9.8% of stated

90% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US40,109
TX3,851
MA71
NH15
VT9

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 filing6 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

7 days

Cadence

~1 / 1.4d

vs. multi-state median

1.1× faster

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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