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HHS OCRState AGConfirmed5 filings · 4 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

Sandhills Medical Foundation — September 2020 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 1, 2021 Mar 12, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

39,602

First → last filing

Jan 1, 2021 Mar 12, 2021

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_d16960afed3d4c3c · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. Intrusion Sep 23, 2020–Dec 3, 2020, discovered Jan 8, 2021. 39,602 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 70-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Jan 1, 2021. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
70days

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 clocksMaine ME AG >30d · 56dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueSouth Carolina SC CRA notice dueHIPAA HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Sep 23, 2020breach begins
Jan 8, 2021discovered
Jan 1, 2021first filing
Mar 12, 2021most 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. JAN 1IL AGIL AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. MAR 5MA AGMA AG notice3 MA residents+63d
  3. MAR 5ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 39,602+63d
  4. MAR 5SC AGSC AG notice38,751 SC residents+63d
  5. MAR 12HHS OCRHHS OCR noticemost recent · states nationwide total 39,602+70d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Sep 23, 2020
ME AG
Discovered
Jan 8, 2021· 107d undetected
IL AG + ME AG + SC AG
Data types
Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PHI
MA AG + ME AG + SC AG +1
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
ME 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)

39,602

Sum of filed state slices

38,756· 97.9% of stated

2% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US39,602
SC38,751
MA3
ME2

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 filing5 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

70 days

Cadence

~1 / 17.5d

vs. multi-state median

8.8× 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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