Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed Oct 17, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_dcf6446bc35b4a83 · merge_method human · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
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.
ME MT
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Sep 22, 2021
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Aug 4, 2022
Reported by MAINE AG filing
Benchmark Education Company LLC reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2022-10-17. The breach occurred from 9/22/2021 to 12/15/2021. 1 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 1
Benchmark Education Company, LLC reported a data breach affecting 5 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred between September 22, 2021, and December 15, 2021, was discovered on August 4, 2022. The incident was an external system breach (hacking) that exposed financial account numbers or credit/debit card numbers along with their security codes or PINs. Affected individuals were notified on October 17, 2022, and offered 12 months of credit and identity monitoring services through Experian IdentityWorks.
Affected (this filing): 5
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.