QualiChem Metalworking — October 2025 breach
Clustered 6 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 27, 2026 → Apr 29, 2026. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_ced6ec3031894ce1 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%
Litigation Timing
SupplementalDiscovered → first regulatory filing
Range of discovered_at dates across filings
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.
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no SEC 8-K in this cluster.
Sensitive data
identity_governmentIncident timeline
Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.
Member cascade — every filing about this breach
- JAN 27Leak sitenitrogen postfirst filing · attacker claim · unverifiedday 0
- MAR 10NH AGNH AG notice1 NH residentsauto-linked+41d
- MAR 10IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 644auto-linked+41d
- APR 29MA AGMA AG notice6 MA residentsauto-linked+91d
- APR 29ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 644+91d
- APR 29NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 2 NH residentsauto-linked+91d
- Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.
Roll-up facts — reconciled across members
- Breach window
- Oct 23, 2025 – Dec 16, 2025 NH AG
- Discovered
- Dec 16, 2025ME AG + NH AGFeb 25, 2026NH AGfilings disagree on discovery
- Data types
- Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PHI NH AG + MA AG + ME AG
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access 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)
644
Sum of filed state slices
38· 5.9% of stated
94% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.
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
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
No press coverage linked yet.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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
91 days
Cadence
~1 / 18.2d
vs. multi-state median
11.4× 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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