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Leak SiteState AGConfirmed8 records · 7 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedlockbit_3high sensitivity
Merged incident · 8 records

Virginia Union University — February 2023 breach

Clustered 8 records across 7 jurisdictions: 7 filings and 1 leak-site claim · filing window May 1, 2024 → May 6, 2024 (dated filings only). View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

8 records

States

7

Affected · reported

97,568

First → last dated filing

May 1, 2024 → May 6, 2024

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_df8ebd0c23484452 · merged by human · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings and 1 unverified claim. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Feb 7, 2023–Feb 13, 2023, discovered Feb 13, 2023 — the first regulatory filing landed 443 days later. 97,568 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID and Identity (basic). Notifications rolled out on a 5-day schedule across 6 dated filings beginning May 1, 2024. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
443days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
365days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Leak precedence
435days before filing

Days between the first sighting of the earliest-seen leak-site claim and the first regulatory filing. Measured from when the aggregator first saw the post, not the crew's own (often earlier) date. 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
5days

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

Feb 7, 2023breach begins
Feb 13, 2023discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 443 days
May 1, 2024first dated filing
May 6, 2024most recent dated filing

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident. Filings without a recorded filing day, or recorded as filed before the breach they report began, are not placed on this rail.

Member cascade — every filing and leak-site claim in this incident

  1. FEB 21Leak sitelockbit_3 postfirst record · attacker claim · unverifiedday 0
  2. MAY 1MA AGMA AG notice459 MA residents+434d
  3. MAY 1IL AGIL AG noticefiling day not on record · no count stated—
  4. MAY 1MT AGMT AG notice8 MT residents+434d
  5. MAY 1DE AGDE AG noticeno count stated+434d
  6. MAY 1CA AGCA AG noticeno count stated+434d
  7. MAY 1IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 97,568+434d
  8. MAY 6NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 20 NH residents+439d
  9. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Feb 13, 2023
CA AG
Discovered
Feb 13, 2023MT AG + DE AG + CA AG +1Feb 13, 2024IL AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID
MA AG + DE AG + CA AG +2
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)

97,568

Sum of filed state slices

678· 0.7% of stated

99% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US97,568
MA459
IN191
NH20
MT8

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 filing7 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 Oct 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

5 days

Cadence

~1 / 1d

vs. multi-state median

1.2× 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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