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HHS OCRState AGConfirmed7 filings · 6 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 7 filings

AAA Collections — September 2022 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 6 jurisdictions · filing window Nov 16, 2022 Dec 15, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

6

Affected · reported

56,848

First → last filing

Nov 16, 2022 Dec 15, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_eb38a728700e4e9d · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Sep 5, 2022–Sep 7, 2022, discovered Sep 7, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 70 days later. 56,848 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), PHI, and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 29-day schedule across 7 filings beginning Nov 16, 2022. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
70days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
47days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
29days

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 clocksMaine ME AG ≤30d · 23dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueHIPAA HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Sep 5, 2022breach begins
Sep 7, 2022discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 70 days
Nov 16, 2022first filing
Dec 15, 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. NOV 16MT AGMT AG noticefirst filing · 139 MT residentsday 0
  2. NOV 16ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 56,848day 0
  3. NOV 16IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 56,848day 0
  4. NOV 16MA AGMA AG notice16 MA residentsday 0
  5. NOV 21NH AGNH AG notice7 NH residents+5d
  6. DEC 15HHS OCRHHS OCR noticestates nationwide total 4,635+29d
  7. DEC 15MT AGMT AG noticemost recent · 2 MT residents+29d
  8. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Sep 5, 2022Sep 7, 2022
MT AG
Discovered
Sep 7, 2022MT AG + NH AGOct 24, 2022ME AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PHI
MT AG + ME AG + NH 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)

56,848

Sum of filed state slices

228· 0.4% of stated

100% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US56,848
MT139
IN58
MA16
ME8
NH7

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 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
deterministic
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
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

29 days

Cadence

~1 / 4.8d

vs. multi-state median

3.6× slower

About this clustering

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