One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Aug 23, 2012. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_e3f6a02101804950 · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Government ID · Identity (basic)
CA
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Aug 7, 2012 → Aug 13, 2012
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Aug 13, 2012
Reported by CALIFORNIA AG filing
The John Stewart Company inadvertently disclosed employee personal information (names, SSNs, birth dates) via mass email on August 7 and 13, 2012. The company deleted the emails, retained LifeLock for one year of identity theft protection, and reinforced internal policies. No evidence of misuse was found.
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.