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State AGConfirmed3 filings · 3 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 3 filings

Academy of Art University — July 2017 breach

Clustered 3 filings across 3 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 17, 2017 → Nov 20, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

⚠ 2 cross-filing discrepancies →Merge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

3 filings

States

3

Affected · reported

4

First → last filing

Nov 17, 2017 → Nov 20, 2017

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_d833bf25f2b7415c · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 3 regulatory filings. The filing describes a phishing attack. Intrusion Jul 21, 2017–Nov 8, 2017, discovered Jul 21, 2017 — the first regulatory filing landed 119 days later. 4 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Health (basic), and 1 more. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
119days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
110days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
3days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksCalifornia✓ CA 60-day OK · 9dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Jul 21, 2017breach begins
Jul 21, 2017discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 119 days
Nov 17, 2017first filing
Nov 20, 2017most 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. NOV 17CA AGCA AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  2. NOV 17MT AGMT AG notice3 MT residentsday 0
  3. NOV 20MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 1 MA residents+3d
  4. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Nov 8, 2017
CA AG
Discovered
Jul 21, 2017MT AGNov 8, 2017CA AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PHI
CA AG + MT AG + MA AG
Attack vector
Phishing
MT AG

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

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 filing3 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

3 days

Cadence

~1 / 1.5d

vs. multi-state median

2.7× 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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