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Merged incident · 5 filings

Barran Liebman LLP — August 2021 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Oct 7, 2022 Oct 17, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

39,925

First → last filing

Oct 7, 2022 Oct 17, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_dd43218422fc4b58 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Aug 19, 2021–Feb 18, 2022, discovered Aug 19, 2021 — the first regulatory filing landed 414 days later (flagged late). 39,925 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Biometric, Government ID, PCI, and 7 more. Notifications rolled out on a 10-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Oct 7, 2022. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
414days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
384days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
10days

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.

Regulatory clocksWashington WA AG >90dMaine ME AG >30d · 33dOregon OR AG ≤45dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

authenticationbiometricfinancial_credentialsidentity_government

Incident timeline

Aug 19, 2021breach begins
Aug 19, 2021discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 414 days
Oct 7, 2022first filing
Oct 17, 2022most 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. OCT 7MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 306 MT residentsday 0
  2. OCT 7IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 39,925day 0
  3. OCT 10ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 36,925+3d
  4. OCT 17OR AGOR AG noticeno count stated+10d
  5. OCT 17WA AGWA AG noticemost recent · 2,707 WA residents+10d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Oct 9, 2021Feb 18, 2022
MT AG
Discovered
Aug 19, 2021WA AGFeb 18, 2022MT AGSep 7, 2022ME AG + OR AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Authentication · Biometric · Education · Financial account · Financial credentials · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI · PHI
MT AG + ME AG + WA AG
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)

39,925

Sum of filed state slices

3,023· 7.6% of stated

92% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US39,925
WA2,707
MT306
IN5
ME5

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-reviewed Jun 12, 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

10 days

Cadence

~1 / 2.5d

vs. multi-state median

1.1× 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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