One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Jan 23, 2012. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_ce2ac3db5f824bbd · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
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.
Government ID · Identity (basic) · Financial account
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Jan 1, 2012
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
Jan 5, 2012
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
NYSEG and RG&E disclosed that an employee of a third-party software consulting firm allowed unauthorized access to customer information systems on January 5, 2012. The breach exposed Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and some financial account numbers. The company engaged forensic experts, consulted law enforcement, and offered credit monitoring to affected customers.
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.