Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
State AGConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
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Data types
2
Identity (basic) · Financial account
Jurisdictions
1
CA
Linked filings
3
all State AG
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
3 State AG filingsMar 25, 2014 – Apr 7, 2014ExpandCollapse
California AG SB24-44555: American Express notified cardholders that a merchant's data files were accessed, exposing card account numbers, names, and expiration dates. No SSN or unauthorized activity was detected. American Express placed additional fraud monitoring and offered Identity Theft Assistance.
California AG SB24-44666: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. reported a breach where cardholder information (account numbers, names, expiration dates) was recovered during a law enforcement investigation. SSN was not impacted. No unauthorized activity detected. Affected individuals advised to monitor accounts and review credit reports.
American Express notified California residents that their card account numbers, names, and expiration dates were recovered during a law enforcement investigation. The company stated that Social Security numbers were not impacted and no unauthorized activity was detected. Additional fraud monitoring was placed on affected cards.
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. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.