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State AGConfirmed5 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

World Acceptance Corporation — August 2026 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Sep 30, 2026 → Oct 2, 2026 (dated filings only). View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

✓ affected count, data types agreeMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

232,401

First → last dated filing

Sep 30, 2026 → Oct 2, 2026

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_f7cc752adc1d4aa2 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. The filings describe hacking. Intrusion Aug 20, 2026, discovered Sep 8, 2026. 232,401 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID and Identity (basic). Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Filing span
2days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

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

Regulatory clocksSouth Carolina✓ SC CRA notice dueTexas✓ TX AG ≤30dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Aug 20, 2026breach begins
Sep 8, 2026discovered
Sep 30, 2026first dated filing
Oct 2, 2026most 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 about this breach

  1. SEP 1MA AGMA AG noticefiling day not on record · 15 MA residents—
  2. SEP 30DE AGDE AG noticefirst filing · no count statedday 0
  3. SEP 30IN AGIN AG noticestates nationwide total 232,401day 0
  4. SEP 30SC AGSC AG notice12,646 SC residentsday 0
  5. OCT 2TX AGTX AG noticemost recent · states nationwide total 232,401+2d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Aug 20, 2026
IN AG
Discovered
Sep 8, 2026· 19d undetected
TX AG
Data types
Identity (basic) · Government ID
MA AG + DE AG + SC AG +1

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)

232,401

Sum of filed state slices

71,042· 30.6% of stated

69% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US232,401
TX51,073
SC12,646
IN7,308
MA15

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 filing5 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

2 days

Cadence

~1 / 0.7d

vs. multi-state median

3.0× 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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