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State AGConfirmed4 filings · 4 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 4 filings

American Cutting Edge — April 2022 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Aug 19, 2022 Aug 23, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

484

First → last filing

Aug 19, 2022 Aug 23, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_d26caafd14da478a · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Apr 20, 2022–Jul 1, 2022, discovered Jul 1, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 49 days later. 484 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: PCI, Financial account, Identity (basic), and 1 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
49days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
32days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
4days

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 · 17dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentials

Incident timeline

Apr 20, 2022breach begins
Jul 1, 2022discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 49 days
Aug 19, 2022first filing
Aug 23, 2022most 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. AUG 19MA AGMA AG noticefirst filing · 18 MA residentsday 0
  2. AUG 19ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 484day 0
  3. AUG 19IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 484day 0
  4. AUG 23NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 4 NH residents+4d
  5. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Apr 20, 2022
ME AG
Discovered
Jul 1, 2022NH AGAug 2, 2022ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI
MA AG + ME AG + NH AG
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)

484

Sum of filed state slices

44· 9.1% of stated

91% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US484
MA18
IN18
ME4
NH4

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 filing4 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

4 days

Cadence

~1 / 1.3d

vs. multi-state median

2.0× 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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