Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed Apr 22, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_f9c2755432144f8e · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
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.
ME MT
all State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Dec 16, 2020
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Mar 23, 2021
Reported by MAINE AG filing
Merrick & Company reported a data breach to the Montana Attorney General. The breach was reported on 2021-04-22. The breach occurred from 12/16/2020 to 1/4/2021. 8 Montana residents were affected.
Affected (this filing): 8
Merrick & Company experienced an external system breach on December 16, 2020, discovered on March 23, 2021. The breach compromised the names and Social Security numbers of 3,240 individuals, including 2 Maine residents. The company notified affected individuals on April 22, 2021, and offered identity theft protection services.
Affected (this filing): 2
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.