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State AGConfirmed7 filings · 7 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 7 filings

CWGS GROUP, LLC — January 2022 breach

Clustered 7 filings across 7 jurisdictions · filing window Aug 1, 2022 Nov 7, 2022. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

7 filings

States

7

Affected · reported

30,172

First → last filing

Aug 1, 2022 Nov 7, 2022

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_f11b167cc4fb40a9 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 7 regulatory filings. The filings describe unauthorized access. Intrusion Jan 14, 2022–Feb 13, 2022, discovered Feb 9, 2022 — the first regulatory filing landed 173 days later (flagged late). 30,172 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Identity (basic), Financial account, and 3 more. Notifications rolled out on a 98-day schedule across 7 filings beginning Aug 1, 2022. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
173days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
161days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
98days

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 >90d · 106dOregon OR AG >45dMassachusetts MA credit monitoring dueFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentialsidentity_government

Incident timeline

Jan 14, 2022breach begins
Feb 9, 2022discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 173 days
Aug 1, 2022first filing
Nov 7, 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. AUG 1WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · 549 WA residentsday 0
  2. NOV 3ME AGME AG noticestates nationwide total 30,172+94d
  3. NOV 7IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 30,172+98d
  4. NOV 7MT AGMT AG notice79 MT residents+98d
  5. NOV 7MA AGMA AG notice154 MA residents+98d
  6. NOV 7OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 30,172+98d
  7. NOV 7NH AGNH AG noticemost recent · 68 NH residents+98d
  8. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jan 14, 2022Feb 13, 2022
WA AG
Discovered
Feb 9, 2022WA AG + MT AG + NH AGJul 20, 2022ME AG + OR AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI · PII
WA AG + ME AG + MT AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
WA 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)

30,172

Sum of filed state slices

2,305· 7.6% of stated

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

US30,172
IN1,404
WA549
MA154
MT79
NH68
ME51

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

98 days

Cadence

~1 / 16.3d

vs. multi-state median

12.3× slower

About this clustering

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