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Leak SiteState AGConfirmed6 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedcactushigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 6 filings

Bacon Universal — August 2023 breach

Clustered 6 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Aug 22, 2023 → Feb 23, 2024. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

6 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

3,561

First → last filing

Aug 22, 2023 → Feb 23, 2024

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_d473b93f8c8e4e9b · merged by human · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings and 1 unverified claim. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Aug 18, 2023–Aug 22, 2023, discovered Aug 22, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 185 days later (flagged late). 3,561 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), and PII. Notifications rolled out on a 185-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Aug 22, 2023. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
185days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
157days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Leak precedence
185days before filing

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.

Filing span
185days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksLeak gap✗ Leak >180dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Aug 18, 2023breach begins
Aug 22, 2023discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 185 days
Feb 23, 2024first filing
—watching for filings

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. AUG 22Leak sitecactus postfirst filing · attacker claim · unverifiedday 0
  2. FEB 23MT AGMT AG notice5 MT residents+185d
  3. FEB 23IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 3,561+185d
  4. FEB 23HI AGHI AG notice3,238 HI residents+185d
  5. FEB 23ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 3,561+185d
  6. FEB 23MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 1 MA residents+185d
  7. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Aug 18, 2023 – Aug 22, 2023
MT AG
Discovered
Aug 22, 2023MT AG + HI AGJan 26, 2024ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID · PII
MT AG + HI AG + ME 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)

3,561

Sum of filed state slices

3,247· 91.2% of stated

9% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US3,561
HI3,238
MT5
IN2
ME1
MA1

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 claim1 member

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

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
human
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Aug 22, 2026 · 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

185 days

Cadence

~1 / 37d

vs. multi-state median

20.6× 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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