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State AGConfirmed5 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

A&A Global Imports, Inc — August 2017 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Jan 9, 2019 Jan 14, 2019. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

52,441

First → last filing

Jan 9, 2019 Jan 14, 2019

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_d28ab2a72dd04edb · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Aug 15, 2017–Jan 4, 2019, discovered Aug 17, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 145 days later. 52,441 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: PII, Identity (basic), Credentials, and 4 more. Notifications rolled out on a 5-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Jan 9, 2019. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
145days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
5days

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.

Sensitive data

authenticationfinancial_credentials

Incident timeline

Aug 15, 2017breach begins
Aug 17, 2018discovered
notification delay · 145 days
Jan 9, 2019first filing
Jan 14, 2019most 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 9MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 456 MT residentsday 0
  2. JAN 9WA AGWA AG notice2,783 WA residentsday 0
  3. JAN 14MA AGMA AG notice1,521 MA residents+5d
  4. JAN 14OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 52,441+5d
  5. JAN 14CA AGCA AG noticemost recent · no count stated+5d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Aug 15, 2017Jan 4, 2019
MT AG
Discovered
Aug 17, 2018· 367d undetected
MT AG + WA AG + CA AG
Data types
Authentication · Credentials · Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · PCI · PII
MT AG + WA AG + CA AG +1
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
MT 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)

52,441

Sum of filed state slices

4,760· 9.1% of stated

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

US52,441
WA2,783
MA1,521
MT456

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
Reviewed
operator-confirmed · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
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

5 days

Cadence

~1 / 1.3d

vs. multi-state median

1.6× 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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