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State AGConfirmed1 filing · 1 stateLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Incident · single filing

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — September 2012 breach

One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed May 18, 2015. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

1 filing

States

1

Affected · reported

17,933

First → last filing

May 18, 2015

incident inc_ebf0fa7927b14673 · merged by deterministic

Confirmed breach. Intrusion Sep 1, 2012–Apr 30, 2014, discovered Nov 1, 2014 — the first regulatory filing landed 198 days later. 17,933 individuals reported across the linked filings.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
198days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Not recorded for this incident

Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing spanno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Sep 1, 2012breach begins
Nov 1, 2014discovered
notification delay · 198 days
May 18, 2015first & only filing
watching for filings

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. MAY 18NH AGNH AG noticeonly filing · states nationwide total 17,933day 0
  2. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Sep 1, 2012Apr 30, 2014
NH AG
Discovered
Nov 1, 2014· 791d undetected
NH AG
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID · Financial account
NH AG
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
NH AG
Response
Launched a comprehensive internal investigation · Retained leading third-party computer forensics experts · Conducted a thorough analysis of the College of Engineering’s computer network
NH 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)

17,933

Sum of filed state slices

46· 0.3% of stated

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

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 filing1 member

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

No SEC filing or victim statement yet.

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.