One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Oct 13, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_f8c340ea97364b71 · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Government ID · Identity (basic) · Employment
SC
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Jul 21, 2017
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Jul 21, 2017
Reported by SOUTH CAROLINA AG filing
Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen reported a break-in at its Texas corporate facility on July 21, 2017, resulting in the theft of laptops and a hard drive containing employee and guest personal information, including SSNs and contact details. The company reported the incident to police, is cooperating with the investigation, and offered 12 months of identity theft protection services to affected individuals.
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.