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

Preferred Hotel Group — June 2016 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Mar 2, 2018 Mar 9, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

21,833

First → last filing

Mar 2, 2018 Mar 9, 2018

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_f83e478d90af41e4 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. The filings describe a third-party compromise. Intrusion Jun 1, 2016–Nov 30, 2017, discovered Jan 25, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 36 days later. 21,833 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Financial account, Identity (basic), and 2 more. Notifications rolled out on a 7-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Mar 2, 2018. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
36days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
36days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
7days

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 clocksOregon OR AG ≤45dFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

financial_credentialsidentity_government

Incident timeline

Jun 1, 2016breach begins
Jan 25, 2018discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 36 days
Mar 2, 2018first filing
Mar 9, 2018most 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. MAR 2WA AGWA AG noticefirst filing · 21,687 WA residentsday 0
  2. MAR 2NH AGNH AG notice20 NH residentsday 0
  3. MAR 2OR AGOR AG noticestates nationwide total 9,182day 0
  4. MAR 2CA AGCA AG noticeno count statedday 0
  5. MAR 9MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 126 MA residents+7d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jun 1, 2016Nov 30, 2017
WA AG
Discovered
Jan 25, 2018OR AGFeb 14, 2018WA AGMar 2, 2018NH AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Financial credentials · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PCI
WA AG + NH AG + CA AG +1
Attack vector
Third-Party / Supply Chain
WA AG

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

Affected residents by state

per-state reported counts

US9,182
WA21,687
MA126
NH20

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
Reviewed
operator-reviewed Jun 12, 2026 · at least one link edge was human-adjudicated
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

7 days

Cadence

~1 / 1.8d

vs. multi-state median

1.1× 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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